Cambalache

Call for paper

Journal

Psicologia Culturale. Contesti, sistemi di regole, attività.

Cultural Psychology. Contexts, systems of rules, activity.

Psicologia Culturale means to emphasize the roots of the "cultural paradigm", that are largely originated in philosophic, historic and psychological Italian tradition of scholars like Giambattista Vico, Cattaneo and Gramsci. Psicologia Culturale also aims at disseminating the cultural reflection, namely within Italian psychology, as well as being an intellectual laboratory and a meeting place between research and theoretical experiences. Besides, taking into account the manifold contexts the "cultural perspective" deals with, the journal Psicologia Culturale means to provide a scientific reference to its heuristic potentialities. The journal will adopt a strong innovative approach and an interdisciplinary perspective, according to the scientific assumptions and the long research tradition of cultural psychology. The Scientific Committee, involving a number of Italian and International scholars working in this domain, will ensure the high scientific quality of the publications and the vivacity of the intellectual debate. The journal will publish mainly in Italian language, but contributions in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese will also be accepted.

Main topics

In the spirit of maximum intellectual openness, and coherently with the themes of the cultural approach, this journal will publish contributions about theories, methods and practices related to the cultural psychology. These are some domains whose papers are most welcome:

*education;
*workplace and organizational studies;
*long-life learning;
*interaction with the technology in working and learning contexts;
*psycho-dynamic and community psychology;
*legal psychology;
*identity and related constructs;
*theoretical and historical development of cultural psychology;
*relationships with other psychological, philosophical, sociological and anthropological approaches;
*studies in multiple cultural contexts;
*cognitive and reasoning processes;
*affect, social, cognitive assessments in cultural contexts.

Types of contributions

The journal is published (2 issues per year, June and December) by Edizioni Firera (www.firera.com). The journal accepts the following types of contributions:

*theoretical papers: this type of contribution focuses on theoretical, methodological and historical aspects of cultural psychology (maximum length 70.000 characters with spaces);
*research papers: this type of contribution focuses on qualitative or quantitative empirical works (including a theoretical frame, method and results) which are a relevant contribution for the advancement of psychological knowledge (maximum length 70.000 characters with spaces);
*target-papers: this type of contribution can focus on theoretical or empirical controversial issues of the cultural psychology paradigm. The paper will be critically reviewed by two or more scholars, also proposed by the author, whose contributions will be published on the same issue of the journal (maximum length 50.000 characters with spaces);
*short research reports: this type of contribution presents innovative on-going research experiences (maximum length 15.000 characters with spaces);
*state-of-the-art, books and scientific events reviews: this type of papers presents reviews about the state-of-the-art in specific research areas (maximum length 25.000 characters with spaces), reviews of scientific books or scientific events. The author will provide a short and exhaustive report of the text or event reviewed (maximum length 15.000 characters with spaces).
*special issues: the journal accepts proposal for special issues. Proposals’ author(s) are responsible for collecting contributions (max 5 articles) and for managing the review and editing process. The special issue’s proposal will be first submitted to the Scientific Committee for approval.

Submission guidelines

All submission will be peer reviewed. The submission must fulfil the maximum length requirements above mentioned and the APA style norms. Submissions must be sent in digital version both to the journal address psicologia@unisa.it and to the publisher address psicologiaculturale@fireraliuzzo.com. The submission’s file in ".doc" or ".rtf" format must use the following naming convention __ (e.g., "cultural psychology in america" by mario rossi sent the 1st January 2009 must be named rossi_america_010109.doc). The file content must be organized as follows:

1.title-page including: title, author(s), affiliation, full address, e-mail, abstract in English (max 1200 characters with spaces), min. 3 max. 6 keywords;
2.text and references – Text without any reference to the author(s) that should be substituted with XXXXXX. Otherwise, author(s) can opt for a non-blind peer review process.
3.figures and images must be included in a new page at the end of the paper with the captions within the text.
4.author(s) declaration stating that the publication (also electronic) rights and translation rights are transferred to Firera Publisher.

Please format the article as follows:

A4 text page (margins: upper cm 5; lower cm 6,2; left cm 4,6; right cm 4,6).

Main title: Times New Roman 12 Bold left alignment;

Paragraphs: Times New Roman 11 Bold left alignment;

Sub-paragraphs: Times New Roman 11 Italic left alignment;

Text: Times New Roman 11 justified alignment;

Editor

Antonio Iannaccone (University of Salerno)

Co-editor

Andrea Smorti (University of Florence)

Scientific Committee

Luigi Anolli (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Anna Maria Aiello (University of Rome "Sapienza")

Pietro Boscolo (University of Padova)

Michel Brossard (University of Bordeaux)

Jerome Bruner (New York School of Law)

Renzo Carli (University of Rome "Sapienza")

Felice Carugati (University of Bologna)

Margarida César (University of Lisbon)

Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego)

Francesco Paolo Colucci (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Willem Corsaro (Indiana University)

Angela Maria Di Vita (University of Palermo)

Yrio Engstrom (Helsinki University)

Michèle Grossen (University of Lausanne, Svizzera)

Beatrice Ligorio (University of Bari)

Giuseppe Mantovani (University of Padua)

Bruno Mazzara (University of Rome "Sapienza")

Nathalie Muller MIRZA (University of Neuchâtel)

Clotilde Pontecorvo (University of Rome "Sapienza")

Alberto Rosa (University of Madrid)

Vitaly V. Rubstov (Moscow State University of Psychology and Pedagogics and Psychological Institute Russian Academy of Education)

Sergio Salvatore (University of Salento)

Jaan Valsiner (Clark University)

Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont (University of Neuchâtel, CH)

Roger Säliö (Linköping University)

Andrea Smorti (University of Florence)

Bertrand Troadec (University of Toulouse "Le Mirail")

Maria Serena Veggetti (University of Rome "Sapienza")

Editorial staff

Pina Marsico (University of Salerno)

Claudio Longobardi (University of Turin)

Luca Tateo (University of Sassari)

Ruggero Ruggieri (University of Salerno)

website:http://www.unisa.it//Dipartimenti/DISCED/Personale/Iannaccone_Antonio/psicologiaculturale.php