Biographical note

Giuseppina Marsico is Associate Professor of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy), Visiting scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, U.S., Affiliated Professor at Ph.D. Programme in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, (Brazil), Visiting Professor at East China Normal University and Associate Professor II at University of Oslo. She is President Elect of the American Psychological Association-Division 52 International Psychology and President of the European Society of Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT). She is a 20 years experienced researcher, with a proven international research network. She is Editor-in-chief of the Book Series Cultural Psychology of Education (Springer), Latin American Voices - Integrative Psychology and Humanities (Springer), co-editor of SpringerBriefs Psychology and Cultural Developmental Sciences (together with Jaan Valsiner) and Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society (InfoAge Publishing, N.C.,U.S., together with Carlos Cornejo e Jaan Valsiner). She is also co-editor of Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture and Meaning (Springer) and of Trends in Psychology (Springer), Associate Editor of Cultural & Psychology Journal (Sage) and Social Psychology of Education (Springer), and member of the editorial board of several international academic journals, (i.e. IPBS- Integrative Psychological & Behavioural Science, Springer). 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; 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.

Luca Tateo is Professor in Theory, Epistemology and Methodology of Qualitative Research at the Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway. He is also an affiliated professor at the Federal University of Bahia. He is coordinator of the International Master in Special Needs Education at the Institute of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo. His current research interests cover the general areas of ecosystemic approach to psychology; social psychology; cultural psychology of education; art and affect; the study of imagination as higher psychological process; the affective logic and the aesthetic dimension of psychic life; the cultural mediation of grief; the epistemology, methodology and history of psychological science; the epistemic injustice in multicultural contexts. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning Springer, and he is editor in Chief of the book series Innovations in Qualitative Research, Information Age Publishing, USA.