Psychology as a Dialogical Science: Self and Culture Mutual Development - Softcover

Angela Uchoa Branco is Professor Emeritus of the University of Brasilia, and teaches at Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil. She was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, at Duke University and at Clark University (USA), and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her research interests and publications include the development of human values, ethics and moral development, cooperation, competition and individualism, and the development of the dialogical self. Among her publications are the books Communication and Metacommunication in Human Development (Branco & Valsiner, 2004), Cultural Psychology of Human Values (Branco & Valsiner, 2012), Diversidade e Cultura de Paz na Escola (Branco & Lopes-de-Oliveira, 2012), Cooperação na Educação Infantil [Cooperation and Early Childhood Education] (Palmieri & Branco, 2015), and Bullying: Família e Escola Enfrentando a Questão [Bullying: Family and School Targeting the Issue] (Manzini & Branco, 2017).

Sandra Ferraz Dourado Castillo Freire is author and professor of Human Development and Psychology of Education at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She supervises pre-service teachers in K-5 public schools and graduate research projects. She coordinates the Psychology of Education unit in her department, is affiliated to the Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program, is a vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Education and directs the “Dialogue –Dialogical practices in Education Laboratory”, which is committed to develop dialogical research practices within dialogical learning contexts, and to design innovative projects to achieve high-quality education for all based on sociocultural and dialogical perspectives. She has a B.A. in Pedagogy from the University of Brasilia, an M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Brasília.