Jaan Valsiner

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Jaan Valsiner (center) at the awarding of the Hans Kilian Prize (2017)

Jaan Valsiner (born June 29, 1951 in Tallinn ) is an American psychologist of Estonian descent, 2017 winner of the Hans Kilian Prize , foreign member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences .

Life

From 1969 to 1971 Jaan Valsiner studied English at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute . He then continued his studies at the Psychological Faculty of the University of Tartu in the field of psycholinguistics and communication. In 1976 he defended his thesis on the relationships between physiological, cognitive and interactive factors in early human ontogeny .

He completed his postgraduate studies in 1979 with the defense of a doctoral thesis on the subject of mechanisms for recognizing faces and facial expressions .

After graduating from Tartu State University in 1976, he moved to the Department of Psychology. From April to October 1980 he was visiting professor and assistant professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , from 1980 to 1981 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . From 1981 to 1997 he was a professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . From 1997 he worked as a professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts . Since 2013 he has been Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark.

At the beginning of his scientific work he dealt with developmental psychology and mainly with the analysis of mother-child communication patterns. Today he focuses more on the cultural organization and cultural psychology of human lifelong cognitive and affective processes. He has worked on the history of psychology and the methodology of psychology . He is also interested in the relationships between psychology and semiotics .

Valsiner has been a US citizen since 1988. He was a professor of psychology at Clark University . Since 2013 he has been working at Aalborg University in Denmark .

Valsiner was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tallinn University on February 22, 2008.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • 1987 - Culture and the development of children's action. Chichester: Wiley
  • 1991 - Understanding Vygotsky. A quest for synthesis . With R. van der Veer. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
  • 1998 - The guided at least Cambridge: Harvard University Press
  • 2000 - The social mind: Construction of the idea. With R. van der Veer. New York: Cambridge University Press
  • 2007 - Culture in minds and societies. New Delhi: Sage
  • 2011 - "Humanitaarteaduste metodoloogia" (kaasautor, peatükk "Kultuuripsühholoogia"). Kogumiku koostaja ja toimetaja Marek Tamm. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
  • 2017 - Between Self and Societies. Creating Psychology in a New Key. Koostanud ja toimetanud Maaris Raudsepp. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus

editor

  • From 1976 to 2008 commentator on behavioral and brain sciences
  • Advisor to the editor of the journal "Soviet Psychology" (1988: Journal of Russian and East European Psychology)
  • 1989–1995 Member of the Editorial Board of Children's Environment Quarterly (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum)
  • 1990–1999 Member of the Editorial Board of Early Development and Parenting (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons)
  • Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Distress and Homeless (New York: Human Sciences Press) since 1990
  • Member of the editorial team for culture and psychology (London: Sage Publications Ltd.) since 1994
  • Member of the editorial team of Mind, Culture & Activity (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers) and Journal of Human and Environmental Sciences (Calcutta: Oriental Center for Bioculture and Environmental Studies) since 1995
  • 1997–2002 member of the editorial team of Human Development (Basel: S. Karger)
  • Member of the editorial team for infant and child development (John Wiley & Sons, editors) and Studia Iagellonica Humani Cultus Progressus (University of Krakow, Poland) and FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research (FU Berlin, Germany), 1999,
  • Member of the editorial team of Infancia y Aprendizaje (Salamanca, Spain) and Estudios de Psicologia (Madrid, Spain) since 2001
  • Member of the editorial team of Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa (Brazil) 2003–2005 and 2009–2011
  • Since 2001 member of the Board of International Studies at Child and Adolescent Health (Cambridge University Press)
  • Member of the board of the European Journal of School Psychology (Edizioni Carlo Amore) since 2003
  • Since 2005 co-editor of the International Journal of Dialogical Science (www.dialogical.org) and the Cadernos do Instituto de Estudios Avançados (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
  • Co-editor of the International Journal of Idiographic Science 2005–2007
  • Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses since 2006
  • Editor of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Transaction Publishers, NJ and Springer, USA) since 2007
  • Since 2008 editor of the book "Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation" (Routledge, London, UK) and board member of the Horowitz Foundation (Princow, New Jersey)
  • Member of the editorial board of Theory & Psychology (Sage) since 2009
  • Member of the editorial team of Psicologia Culturale (Rome: Giorgio Fireira) since 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the Editor - Jaan Valsiner. Oxford University Press , accessed March 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Valsiner, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist of Estonian descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn