The publishing house “Gorodets” has released a two-volume work by Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Education, President of Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (MSUPE), and Head of the UNESCO Chair “Cultural-Historical Psychology of Childhood” Vitaly Vladimirovich Rubtsov, entitled Socio-Genetic Psychology of Learning Interactions.
The edition includes articles, speeches, and projects that reflect the results of many years of research conducted by the author and his scientific school in the field of socio-genetic psychology. It highlights the relationship of this research direction with the tasks of cultural-historical psychology and activity theory, and presents a description of a new socio-genetic method for studying the processes of formation and development of concepts in children, depending on the organisation of learning interactions.
In his foreword, the author notes that the initial ideas of this new scientific approach were formulated in his doctoral dissertation and first published in the monograph Foundations of Socio-Genetic Psychology. He also recalls his teachers and colleagues, emphasising the role of Academician V.V. Davydov in his professional development and the importance of scientific dialogue in advancing socio-genetic psychology.
This two-volume edition is the most complete collection of V.V. Rubtsov’s works devoted to an original scientific approach within the framework of cultural-historical psychology and activity theory:
Rubtsov, V.V. Socio-Genetic Psychology of Learning Interactions (selected articles, speeches, projects). Volume 2. Moscow: Gorodets Publishing House, 2024. — 543 p.