GIUSEPPINA MARSICO | Curriculum

Pina Marsico, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy), , Visiting Professor at Ph.D Programme in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, (Brazil) and Associate Researcher at Aalborg University (Denmark). She is Past President of the American Psychological Association-Division 52 Society for a Global Psychology and President of the European Society of Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT). She is Editor-in-chief of the Book Series Cultural Psychology of Education (Springer), Latin American Voices (Springer), co-editor of SpringerBriefs Psychology and Cultural Developmental Sciences (together with Jaan Valsiner), co-editor of Global South Visions (Springer) (togheter with Jaan Valsiner) and Annals of Cultural Psychology: (InfoAge Publishing, N.C., USA). She is also co-editor of Human Arenas (Springer) Trends in Psychology (Springer) and of the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology. She is the co-founder (together with Jaan Valsiner) of the Global South Network of Cultural Psychology and of the European Hub of Cultural Psychology. She is also the President of the Jaan Valsiner Foundation. University Beyond Borders.

Her academic tracks and list of publications include two complementary lines of investigations: 1) an educational-focused research activity where prof. Marsico is the leading figure of the new field of Cultural Psychology of Education that promotes research upon the most innovative and culturally sensitive experiences in psychology learning and teaching worldwide; 2) a cultural oriented interdisciplinary perspective based on both theoretical and empirical investigation, focusing on the borders as a new ontogenetic perspective in psychology and other social sciences. prof. Marsico has established a new research field called Developmental Mereotopology.