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Kultuuripsühholoogia kompetentsikeskus

The aim of the Centre of Competence is to create a fundamental internationally integrated knowledge base about cultural psychology as the most rapidly growing field in psychology and  in society in general. We intend to provide basic research education at a higher level of academic excellence, as well as information about cultural psychology to people from different educational and interdisciplinary backgrounds in the field of social, educational, and health sciences. The Center is an integral part of Tallinn University’s psychology and behavioural science stream of investigations within the School of Natural Sciences and Health.

What is cultural psychology? It can be expressed in eight statements:

  • Methodological basis of cultural psychology is structural-systemic epistemological approach. 
  • Cultural psychology is a new synthesis of knowledge at the borders of developmental and social psychology, semiotics, cultural history, and philosophy. 
  • It is based on the European tradition of Naturphilosophie, Völkerpsychologie, and phenomenology. 
  • Cultural Psychology in its contemporary version has emerged since the 1990s. 
  • Cultural psychology looks at human psyche starting from the highest forms of cultural inventions—art, music, literature. 
  • Its methodology is qualitative in its nature, with focus on introspection, autoethnography, and microgenesis. 
  • Cultural psychology is axiomatically based on the framework of open systems that focus on exchange relations of organism with environment. 
  • It derives general knowledge from systemically analyzed single cases In its Estonian
  • academic history it derives from the work of Juri Lotman and Peeter Tulviste.

Kontaktid

Juhtimine

  • Jaan Valsiner, president of the CCP, Aalborg University (Denmark), Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität (Ljubljana-Wien), Universidade Federal do Bahia, Brazil, and Tallinn University
  • Katrin Kullasepp, vice-president of the CCP, School of natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University

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Üliõpilased ja juhendajad

 

  • Julia Bo Christensen Lindgren, doktorant, loodus- ja terviseteaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool
  • Simone Indius, doktorant, loodus- ja terviseteaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool

  • Annela Samuel, doktorant, ühiskonnateaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool

  • Arno Baltin, loodus- ja terviseteaduste instituut, Tallinna Ülikool

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Uurimissuunad

  • Identity construction, professional identity of psychologist and teachers (Katrin Kullasepp)
  • Artists as creators of culture (Katrin Kullasepp)  
  • From university to life: development of the professional self in practice (Julia Bo Christensen Lindgren)
  • Meta-Intentionality in Psychotherapy: Understanding Therapist Intentions, Professional Growth, and the Therapeutic Alliance (Simone Indius)

  • Psychosocial development in adulthood, particularly in relation to life-course transitions, work-life balance, and migration (Mariann Märtsin)

  • Post-Soviet Transition Beyond Liminality: Opportunities for Social Work (Annela Samuel)

  • Cultural Psychology of well-being (Aleksander Pulver)

  • Health Psychology with a particular interest in early childhood health, adolescent mental health, and addictive behaviours  (Kristiina Uriko)

  • Developmental Psychology with a particular interest in parent-infant bonding, parenthood, and developmental transitions (Kristiina Uriko)

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Tulekul

Sügisseminar - 03.- 04. oktoober 2025

Uudised

  • Blended Intensive Program: Culture, Migration, and Identity: Supporting People on the Move

This Blended Intensive Program, organized by Tallinn University in partnership with the University of Oslo and the University of Seville, provides an in-depth exploration of migration, culture, and identity. Grounded in cultural psychology and Dialogical Self Theory, the course examines how migration shapes identities, relationships, and integration processes in diverse sociocultural contexts. The program consists of two components: Virtual Component (March 2025): Online sessions introducing key theories and real migration stories. On-Site Intensive in Tallinn, Estonia (April 7–11, 2025): Five days of immersive learning, including site visits to NGOs, interactive lectures, self-reflective and arts-based exercises, cultural events, and a field trip to Narva to examine migration-related challenges in a border-town context. The program is taught by experts in cultural psychology and migration studies: Mariann Märtsin and Annela Samuel (Tallinn University, Estonia), Guro Brokke Omland (University of Oslo, Norway), and Alicia Español Nogueiro (University of Seville, Spain).For more information: martsin@tlu.ee

  • European Hub for Cultural Psychology established

Cultural Psycholgists across Europe have now a joint online platform for international exchange: The European Hub for Cultural Psychology (https://cultural-psychology-hub.eu/). The hub is a collaborating conglomerate consisting of universities in different European countries carrying out specific emphases within the approach of Cultural Psychology established by Jaan Valsiner. The Centre for Cultural Psychology at AAU is one of the collaborating partners of the hub.Cultural psychologists from 15 countries and 19 universities across Europe are represented in this network. Carolin Demuth is science ambassador for Cultural Psychology in Aalborg. Brady Wagoner is science ambassador for Cultural Psychology in Copenhagen. Jaan Valsiner is science ambassador for Cultural Psychology in Ljubliana. It has worldwide collaboration with a number of universities and associations including division 52 of the American Psychological Association, Ritsumeikan University (Japan), the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP) and the Jaan Valsiner foundation Psychology Beyond Borders.

  • Collaboration with our international partners

In April, the members of the Cultural Psychology Competence Center Jaan Valsiner, Katrin Kullasepp and Kristiina Uriko visited the Universidade Federale da Bahia (Brazil). They participated in the international seminar “VIII International Seminar on Cultural Psychology. Cannibalizing Cultural Psychology”. They also discussed the possibilities of strengthening ties between both universities and carrying out joint international projects.

Tulemused

  • Satellite Seminar. Actualgenese in Focus. Dialogues in cultural psychology (June, 2024).
    Organizer: Katrin Kullasepp
  • Jaan Valsiner's Jubilee Week at Tallinn University 01.06.2021–30.11.2021 Funder: Tallinn University Funding 10000 EUR. Organizer Mariann Märtsin
  • The 12th International Conferences on the Dialogical Self”  (4.06 - 7.06.2024) Chair: Katrin
    Kullasepp  https://konverentsikeskus.tlu.ee/en/12th-international-conference-dialo…
  • "Between the representation of the crisis and the crisis of representation." Re.Cri.RE (TAU15065, 649436) 1.05.2015−30.04.2018; Principal Investigator: Katrin Kullasepp; Tallinn University, School of Natural Sciences and Health (partner), Tallinn University, School of Governance, Law and Society (partner); Financier: Commission of the European Communities; Financing: 101 913 EUR.

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