Psychological Science and Education

Dear colleagues,

For three years now, our journal has been arriving regularly in your homes, four times a year.

Unfortunately, the economic crisis has also had a severe impact on our journal. This is why the issue you are now holding is a combined one.

Next year, we shall endeavour to increase the size of the journal somewhat in order to compensate for these losses.

We shall continue to seek out topical, engaging and previously unpublished materials.

We are confident that, together with you, we shall live through these difficult times.

This issue is dedicated to the memory of V. V. Davydov. Some of the articles were prepared specially at the request of the editorial board, but most of the materials reached us in the course of our regular editorial work. The bitterness of this loss compels educational psychologists to take a closer look at V. V. Davydov’s scholarly legacy.

During the preparation of this issue, the psychological community suffered another loss. Our remarkable colleague and author, O. M. Dyachenko, is no longer with us.