Jaan Valsiner (born June 29, 1951 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an

Estonian-American Estonian Americans ( et, Ameerika eestlased) are Americans who are of Estonian ancestry, mainly descendants of people who left Estonia before and especially during World War II. According to the 2021 American Community Survey, around 29,000 Americ ...

professor of developmental and cultural psychology, the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Prize (1995) for his interdisciplinary work on human developmentOxford University Press: About the Editor: Jaan Valsiner
/ref>Jaan Valsiner's profile at Humolbdt Foundation
/ref> and 2017

Hans-Kilian-Award The Hans Kilian Award honored researchers whose outstanding scientific achievements provide a deeper insight into the historical and cultural existence of humankind and the changing human psyche. The award, a cash prize of 80,000 euros, was one of t ...

winner,The list of Hans-Kilian-Award winners
/ref> the Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of SciencesValsiner, the Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
/ref> and the former ''Niels Bohr Professor'' of Cultural Psychology (in 2013-2018), currently, a professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Life

Jaan Valsiner worked as a professor of psychology in Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1997.Jaan Valsiner's home page at Clark University
/ref> Between 2013 and 2018, Valsiner was a Niels Bohr Professor, since then a professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. His early studies were in the field of

developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...

, specifically in the analysis of mother-child interaction patterns and ever since he identifies himself as "cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base". His later studies and research focus gradually shifted into cultural psychology and cultural organization of human cognitive and affective processes throughout life-span. He has also considerably contributed to the fields of the history of psychology as well as methodology of psychological research. His other major research interest is the intersection of and interconnections between psychology and semiotics. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.Jaan Valsiner at SAGE Publishers
/ref> On February 22, 2008 he was announced an Honourable Doctor of the Tallinn University.Honorary Members of Tallinn University
/ref> Jaan Valsiner is the editor-in-chief of ''

Culture and Psychology ''Culture and Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of psychology. The journal's editor is Jaan Valsiner. It was established in 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. Abstract ...

'' ( SAGE Publishing; as a founding editor in 1995 and until now), '' Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science'' ( Springer Publishing, from 2007), and of '' The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology'' ( Oxford University Press, 2012). He is also the editor of several book series, such as ''Advances in Cultural Psychology'' and ''Annals of Cultural Psychology' '' with Information Age Publishing (IAP), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; ''History and Theory of Psychology'' with Transaction Publishers, USA (sold to Taylor & Francis in 2016 and merged with its Routledge imprint); ''Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation'' with Routledge in UK; and one of the founding editors of the IAP ''Yearbook of Idiographic Science'' (since 2008)

Awards

* 1995 – Alexander von Humboldt Award for research in social sciences * 1995–1997 – Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil * 2001 – 4th Class

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

* 2008 – Honourable doctorate at the Tallinn University * 2010 – Honourable doctorate at the

University of Valle The University of Valle ( es, Universidad del Valle), also called Univalle, is a public university, public, department (administrative division), departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauc ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

Clark University Campus Digest, October 21, 2010. Faculty and Staff Note
Prof. Jean Valsiner awarded honorary post at University of Valle, Colombia
/ref> * 2017 –

* 2017 – the Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

Selected works

* 1987 �
Culture and the development of children's action
(2nd ed. in 1997). Chichester: Wiley. * 1988

Bloomington: Indiana University Press. * 1991 �
Understanding Vygotsky. A quest for synthesis
with René van der Veer. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. * 1994
The Vygotsky Reader
with René van der Veer. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. * 1998 �
The Guided Mind
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. * 2000 �
The social mind: Construction of the idea
With R. van der Veer. New York: Cambridge University Press. * 2007
The Cambridge Handbook of Socio-Cultural Psychology
with Alberto Rosa. * 2007 – Culture in minds and societies. New Delhi: Sage. * 2012
A Guided Science: History of Psychology in the Mirror of Its Making
Transaction Publishers/Routledge. * 2014
Invitation to Cultural Psychology
London: Sage. * 2017
From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology
Springer VS. SpringerBriefs in Psychology.

References

External links

Jaan Valsiner at Clark University

Jaan Valsiner at Aalborg University

Valsiner's personal web site

Jaan Valsiner on amazon.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Valsiner, Jaan 1951 births Academic staff of Aalborg University Academic journal editors Clark University faculty Communication theorists Cultural psychologists Developmental psychologists Estonian psychologists Humboldt Research Award recipients Living people Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences People from Tallinn Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class Tallinn University alumni University of Tartu alumni American cognitive scientists