GRIS

Gruppo di Ricerca sulle Interazioni Sociali Laboratorio di Psicologia “Giovanni Abignente”

Research Group on Social Interactions Laboratory of Psychology “Giovanni Abignente”

University of Salerno

Scientific Director

Description

GRIS is based at the Department of Human, Philosophic and Education Sciences at the University of Salerno. It is the first laboratory in Italy and among the few all over the World, that approaches education and human development from a Cultural Psychology perspective.

It aims at promoting new qualitative methodologies for educational and development psychology and interdisciplinary enrichment in ideas and practices.

GRIS has a clearly defined international and interdisciplinary focus hosting research activity on the interconnection between Cultural Psychology and other Developmental Sciences.

From the 2008 the GRIS is carrying out research activities on social interaction in educational contexts, the notion of Borders and its relationships with development, identity and psycho-social transitions, the formation of scientific concepts in childhood and adolescent well-being.

Partnership

GRIS is part of a wider international research network which includes (among others), India, China, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Canada, USA, Australia, Estonia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, Austria.

From 2007, GRIS, is member of the Kitchen-Seminar -International Research Group (coordinated by Prof. Jaan Valsiner) http://kitchenseminar.wordpress.com/

From 2018, GRIS is partner of the Centre of Excellence “Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future “

GRIS has established fruitful research interchange and joint research programme (International Cooperation Agreements) with:

International cooperation agreements

· East China Normal University, Department of Psychology and Department Preschool Education, Shanghai, RPC;

· Federal University of Salvador da Bahia (UFBA), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Salvador, Brazil;

· Universidad de Concepción,Chile. Ph.D Programme in Psychology at Departamento de Psicología,

· University of São Paulo, Brazil -Institute of Psychology

· Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Cali, Colombia

Research and teaching collaborations

· Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, (Denmark);

· Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston (USA);

· CUNY Univerity, New York. USA;

· Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA;

· School of Psychology, University of Sidney (Australia);

· Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Cali, Colombia

· Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia

· Universidad del Desarollo, Santiago del Chile, Chile

· Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE, Recife, Brazil, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia Cognitiva ;

· University of Luxembourg, INSIDE - Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development, Luxembourg),

· Department of Psychology, Tallinn University, Estonia;

· Department of Psychology, University of Trondheim NTNU, Norway:

· Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain;

· Universidad Del País Vasco, Spain;

· Universidad De Granada, Spain;

· Universitat Rovira I Virgil, Tarragona, Spain;

· Universite' de Marseille, France

· University of Lisbon, Portugal

· Univerity of Minho, Portugal

· University of Seville, Spain

· University of Malta, Malta

· University of Ankara, Turkey

· Cumhuriyet Universitesi, Turkey

· University of Wroclaw, Poland

· Univerity of Warsow, Poland

· University of Prague (Czech Republic)

· Univerity of Amsterdam, (Holland)

· Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria

· University of Brasilia, Institute of Psychology, Brazil

· Kerala University Trivandrum, India

· New Delhi Univerity, India

· Sigmud Freud Univerity, Austria

· Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago del Chile, Chile;

· Tokai University, Japan

· Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan

· Ritsumeikan Univerity, Japan

Contacts

Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Filosofiche e della Formazione (DISUFF), Università di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy.

Room: FSTEC-01P02002

Phone: +39 089 96 2104

E-mail: gris@unisa.it gmarsico@unisa.it