The COVID-19 pandemic caused school closures and social isolation, which created both
learning and emotional challenges for adolescents. Schools worked hard to move classes …

Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for
parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children …

Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book
proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the …

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It
is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark …

Les transitions que peuvent vivre des enfants et de jeunes adultes, telles qu'elles ont lieu
lors du passage entre deux cadres de formation, ou de la famille à l'école, ou encore en cas …

Abstract The French movie “Life Is a Long Quiet River”(«La vie est un long fleuve tranquille»,
Chatiliez, 1988) compares the fates of two children, born in contrasting social classes and …

Since youth transitions have been redefined as flexible periods of change, it becomes
difficult to conceptually distinguish them from any other transition period in people's life …

Development is a classic focus of Vygotskian cultural-historical research. On the other hand,
development is curiously absent in many recent ethnographic and interactionist approaches …

[T] he basic law of all mental development [is that] what follows always originates from what
precedes and nevertheless appears opposed to it as a new creation... every stage of [this] …

There have been deep changes in societies during the last decade. As a result, schools face
new challenges, such as avoiding exclusion by promoting inclusion. In this paper we …