2.06.2026 Child Cultural-historical Psychology Today

Moderator: Apollinaria Chursina (Researcher at Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research, Researcher at the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy at Faculty of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University) Speakers: Joseph Seyram Agbenyega (United Arab Emirates) - A Cultural-Historical Approach to Developing Children’s Cognition and Environmental Risk Intelligence Through Digital Tools Joaquim Quintino-Aires (Portugal) - Raising Children in a Digital Age: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Supporting Parents in Times of Rapid Transformation Hasina Ebrahim (South Africa) - Digital Citizenship in Early Childhood: A Call for Care and Responsibility Usha Kiran Subba (Nepal) - Screen-Based Storytelling vs. Traditional Reading: Cognitive and Emotional Impacts on Narrative Processing in Children Constantine Andoniou (UAE) - Synthetic Mediation and the Zone of Proximal Development: Rethinking Vygotsky in AI-Mediated Childhoods