Anton Yasnitsky
yasya
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
University of Toronto (UofT)
ayasnitsky at oise dot utoronto dot ca



Journal Publications
Books

  • van der Veer, R., Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (under contract with Cambridge University Press). The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology (completion planned for 2012)

Editorial Activities

Yasnitsky, A. (in press, 2010). Guest Editor's Introduction: "Second Vygotskian revolution"? Uncovering Vygotsky's archives. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, 49(1) (January-February). (Guest editor for special issue).

Yasnitsky, A. (2009). Guest Editor's Introduction: The Tradition of P.I. Zinchenko's Research on Memory Today. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya [Cultural-historical psychology], 2. (Guest editor for special issue).

Yasnitsky, A. (2008). Guest Editor's Introduction: Dialogue between the Soviet and international psychology of memory. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, 46(6) (November-December), 3-5. (Guest editor for special issue).

Yasnitsky, A. (2008). Guest Editor's Introduction: Piotr Zinchenko's psychology of memory: A brief history of ideas. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, 46(5), (September-October), 3-7. (Guest editor for special issue)


Conference Presentations
  • Cultural and Developmental Psychology
  • Yasnitsky, A. Ivanova, E., & Ferrari, M. (2008, Sept 8-13). Dialogue about wisdom as joint construction of meaning. Paper presented at the Second Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), San Diego, CA.

    Yasnitsky, A. Falenchuk, O., & Ferrari, M. (2008, July 20-25). Remembering in Child’s Play: Historical and Cultural Perspectives in Istomina’s Experiment and Its Replications. Paper presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany.

    Mazhirina, E., Yasnitsky, A., Falenchuk, O., & Ivanova, E.F. (2008, July 20-25). Involuntary Memorization as a Function of Activity: A Hypothesis of the Historical Evolution of Mental Functions. Paper presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany.

    Yasnitsky, A. (2008, July 13-17). Children's Drawing from Cultural-historical Perspective. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) Meeting, Wuerzburg, Germany.

    Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2008, July 13-17). Vygotsky's lecture Play and its role in the mental development of the child (1933). Paper presented at the 20th Biennial International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) Meeting, Wuerzburg, Germany.


  • History of Science and Psychology
  • Yasnitsky, A. (2009, August 6-9). International human sciences between the world wars: the case of Bronson Price's trip to Moscow (1933-1936). Paper presented at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, Toronto, ON.

    Yasnitsky, A. (2009, July 28 - August 3). Methodological issues of the history of Soviet psychology between the two world wars: case study of Vygotsky Circle. Paper presented at the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology: Ideas and Instruments in Social Context, Budapest, Hungary.

    Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2008, August 14-17). Hanfmann-Kasanin Test From the Perspective of Vygotskian Clinical Psychology. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, Boston, MA.

    Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2008, June 26-29). Several misconceptions in the history of Vygotskian psychology in 1930s.Paper presented at the 40th Annual meeting of the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Cheiron), Toronto, ON.

    Yasnitsky, A. (2008, March, 24-28). From "the zone of proximal development" to "cognizance in learning": Vygotskian educational psychology evolution in the 1930-40s. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference, New York.

    Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2007, June 25-29). Early Vygotskian psychology after Vygotsky: An introduction to the Kharkov School of psychology. Paper presented at the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, 26 Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

    Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2007, June, 18-22). Vygotsky's Method: Between Pedagogy and Psychoneurology. Paper presented at the Theoretical psychology beyond borders: Transdisciplinarity and internationalization. International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Yasnitsky, A. & Ferrari, M. (2007, September, 10-11). Wiki as a zone of proximal development. Paper presented at the 2nd Socio-Cultural Theory in Educational Research Practice: Theory, Identity and Learning Conference. Manchester, UK

    Yasnitsky, A. (2007, April 9-13). Emergence and Self-Organization in Knowledge Building Discourse: A Grade-Three Case Study. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference, Chicago.

    Yasnitsky, A. (2006). Knowledge building discourse in a grade three classroom. Unpublished Master's thesis






always in progress ...