On April 7, 2021, the first meeting of the seminar on cultural-historical psychology was held. The organizers are the Specialized University of America UDELAS in Panama, the National Pedagogical University of Francisco Morazán in Honduras, the National Distance University in Costa Rica, the Agrarian University of Havana in Cuba, the Faculty of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education, as well as the Russian Psychological Society and the Panamanian Association of Psychologists.

This special issue will be devoted to the topic of developmental research and its practical applications from the perspective of Cultural-Historical psychology.

The main aim of the issue is to show the wide range of phenomena related to psychological development, including experimental procedures in the field of psychological development, methods for assessment of development, descriptions of original methods of work with children in different conditions of life and cultural contexts. The special issue invites articles that advance knowledge and experience gathered via psychological research with groups and/or individual cases. Submitted articles might contribute to a variety of aspects of psychological development, such as development of personality, role of guiding activity, social situation of development and so forth. Theoretical and methodological aspects of Cultural-Historical psychology are also in focus of the issue. Novel experiences related to the process of psychological development in changing life conditions including the situation of pandemic COVID-2019 are also welcomed. All works should be related to the theoretical positions and concepts of Cultural-Historical psychology.

Guest co-editors: Yulia Solovieva (Mexico), Athanasios Koutsoklenis (Greece)

Deadline for submission is June 1^st, 2021

We invite you to attend the International Psychological Forum “Child in a Digital World” which will be held online on 1-2 June 2021.

The Forum is initiated by the Psychology Institute of Russian Academy of Education together with the Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Russian Psychological Society and is supported by European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations. Participation in the forum is free of charge.

All sessions will be simultaneously translated into Russian, English and Spanish, and presentations can be made in any of these three languages.

All presenters and participants must register by April 1, 2021: https://digitalchildhood.org/en/.