Psychology as a Dialogical Science

1. A Theoretical Approach to the Ontology of Identity in Dialogical Psychology.- 2. Dialogic Analysis of a Lesson on the Educational Controversies of Religious Holidays in a Dialogic Multi-regime College Classroom.- 3. The Development of the Dialogical Self System: Coconstruction of Dynamic Self Positionings from a Cultural Psychology Perspective.- 4. Self-imaging in the Transition to Adolescence: Exploring a Semiotic-cultural Approach to Self Development.- 5. The Fertility of the Affective-Semiotic Fields for the Dialogical Analysis of Values and Intersubjective Relationships in the Context of a Socio-Educational System.- 6. Social Identities, Prejudices, and Exclusion: The Reproduction of the (In)visibility of Different Groups in School Contexts.- 7. A Semiotic Approach to Developmental Transitions: A Young Woman's Dedication to Religious Consecrated Life.- 8.The Semiotic Cultural Foundation of an Aesthetic Creative Analysis of Vik Muniz.- 9.Co-Authorship in Interethnic Dialogues: Reflections on the Amerindian Support Network.

Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes-de-Oliveira is Professor at the Department of Developmental and School Psychology and at the Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Brasília, Brazil. She coordinates the Laboratory of Cultural Psychology (LABMIS/University of Brasilia) and coordinated the Dialogical Psychology working group at the Brazilian National Association of Psychological Research-ANPEPP. She also leads GAIA research group, concerned about youth development in conditions of poverty and social vulnerability, and the development of critical methodologies for professionals working in Justice and Social Assistance institutional contexts. She coedited with Angela Branco the book Diversidade e Cultura da Paz na escola: uma abordagem sociocultural [Diversity and Culture for Peace: a sociocultural approach] (2012) and Alterity, Values, and Socialization. Human Development within Educational Contexts (2018), and edited the book A Adolescência, direitos humanos e socioeducação: perspectivas interdisciplinares [Adolescence, Human Rights and socio-education: interdisciplinary perspectives]. She has been a consultant to governmental projects on social policies and human rights, especially those aiming at benefiting the developmental perspectives of adolescents in conflict with the law.
Angela Uchoa Branco is Professor Emeritus of the University of Brasilia, and teaches at Developmental and School Psychology Graduate Program, Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil. She was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, at Duke University and at Clark University (USA), and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her research interests and publications include the development of human values, ethics and moral development, cooperation, competition and individualism, and the development of the dialogical self. Among her publications are the books Communication and Metacommunication in Human Development