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  1. a reflexive account of a life-journey in cultural psychology

    Article • March 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  2. Access to the affordances of literacy: reflections on the evolving influence of ICT in Zambia

    Article • cultura & psyché, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  3. Sankofa: appreciating the past in planning the future of early childhood education, care and development in Africa

    Article • January 2023, UNESCO-IHP

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  4. Bridging cultural perspectives for international cooperation and progressive social change

    Article • Human Development, January 2021, Karger Publishers

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  5. Parental involvement and learners’ performance in rural basic schools of Zambia

    Article • South African Journal of Childhood Education, August 2020, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  6. Literacy and Child Development in a Contemporary African Society

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, May 2020, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  7. Using a phone-based learning tool as an instructional resource for initial literacy learning in rural African families

    Article • South African Journal of Childhood Education, February 2020, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  8. Introduction to the special section by the guest editor

    Article • Journal of Psychology in Africa, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  9. Human development in Africanist settings: Advancing the research scholarship of Bame Nsamenang

    Article • Journal of Psychology in Africa, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  10. How the Study of Cognitive Growth Can Benefit From a Cultural Lens

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  11. Contextual Responsiveness: An Enduring Challenge for Educational Assessment in Africa

    Article • Journal of Intelligence, February 2016, MDPI AG

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  12. Do neuropsychological test norms from African Americans in the United States generalize to a Zambian population?

    Article • Psychological Assessment, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell, Norma Kabuba

  13. GraphoGame – a catalyst for multi-level promotion of literacy in diverse contexts

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  14. Ensuring sufficient literacy practice with tablet technology in Zambian schools

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  15. Important current topics for research on child development in Africa

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  16. how research on child development in Africa is changing

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  17. Design and Validation of Assessment Tests for Young Children in Zambia

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  18. Multiple Perspectives and Constraints on Progressive Social Change: A Commentary

    Article • Mind Culture and Activity, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  19. Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Goals and Prospects of CAPOLSA at the University of Zambia

    Article • Human Technology, May 2014, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  20. Cole, Michael

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  21. Jahoda, Gustav

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  22. Goodnow, Jacqueline

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  23. Early educational foundations for the development of civic responsibility: An African experience

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  24. Social Responsibility as a Dimension of Intelligence, and as an Educational Goal: Insights From Programmatic Research in an African Society

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  25. Developmental assessment, cultural context, gender, and schooling in Zambia

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, April 2008, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  26. Challenging western hegemony through systematic study of cultural diversity: an undergraduate course on child development and culture

    Article • Intercultural Education, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  27. Bridging between orthodox western higher educational practices and an African sociocultural context

    Article • Comparative Education, February 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  28. Optimizing the Developmental Consequences of Education: Reflections on Issues Raised by Michael Cole

    Article • Human Development, January 2005, Karger Publishers

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  29. Changing Views of Culture and Behavior: An Interview with Robert Serpell

    Article • Teaching of Psychology, January 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  30. The Embeddedness of Human Development within Sociocultural Context: Pedagogical, and Political Implications

    Article • Social Development, May 2002, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  31. Intimate culture of families in the early socialization of literacy.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  32. Intimate culture of families in the early socialization of literacy.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  33. Parents' Interactions with Their First-Grade Children During Storybook Reading and Relations with Subsequent Home Reading Activity and Reading Achievement

    Article • Journal of School Psychology, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  34. Use of Jessor's Theoretical Framework of Adolescent Risk Behavior in Ethiopia: Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention

    Article • Northeast African Studies, January 2000, Project Muse

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  35. Opportunities and constraints for research on education and human development in Africa: Focus on assessment and special education

    Article • Prospects, September 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  36. Standardization of the Panga Munthu Test-A Nonverbal Cognitive Test Developed in Zambia

    Article • The Journal of Negro Education, January 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  37. Critical Issues Literacy Connections between School and Home: How Should We Evaluate Them?

    Article • Journal of Literacy Research, December 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  38. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, March 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  39. Education as an encounter between individual motivation and cultural context

    Article • Human Development, January 1997, Karger Publishers

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  40. Parental Beliefs about Ways to Help Children Learn to Read: The Impact of an Entertainment or a Skills Perspective

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  41. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, December 1994, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  42. Cultural Dimensions of Cognition: A Multiplex, Dynamic System of Constraints and Possibilities

    Article • January 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  43. Negotiating a fusion of horizons: A process view of cultural validation in developmental psychology

    Article • Mind Culture and Activity, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  44. Mental Retardation in African Countries: Conceptualization, Services, and Research

    Article • January 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  45. Exaggerating the Significance of Text

    Article • Curriculum Inquiry, January 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  46. Early Intervention in Third World Countries

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  47. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, March 1990, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  48. Psychology and Anthropology: a psychological perspective by Gustav Jahoda London, Academic Press, 1982. Pp. x+305. £24.00 (1985).

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, December 1986, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  49. Commentary: The Impact of Psychology on Third World Development

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, January 1984, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  50. How Relevant is American Psychology to the Rest of the World?

    Article • PsycCRITIQUES, January 1982, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  51. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, June 1981, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  52. LINGUISTIC FLEXIBILITY IN URBAN ZAMBIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, June 1980, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  53. The Skill of Pictorial Perception: An Interpretation of Cross-Cultural Evidence

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, January 1980, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  54. How specific are perceptual skills? A cross-cultural study of pattern reproduction*

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, August 1979, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  55. Need for a new direction: Psychology in Africa

    Article • Reviews in Anthropology, March 1977, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  56. Another Opinion on Pictorial Art in Zambia

    Article • African Arts, January 1975, JSTOR

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  57. Discrimination of orientation by Zambian children.

    Article • Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, January 1971, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  58. Performance on a Sorting Task. A Cross-Cultural Experiment

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, January 1971, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  59. Cultural Differences in Attentional Preference for Colour Over Form

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, January 1969, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  60. The Influence of Language, Education and Culture on Attentional Preference Between Colour and Form

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, January 1969, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  61. Colour Prejudice and Oxford Landladies

    Article • Race, April 1965, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  62. Becoming Literate in the City

    Article • January 1958, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  63. Intelligence and Culture

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  64. Estimates of intelligence in a rural community of eastern Zambia.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  65. Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context

    Article • Nature

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  66. Determinants of intelligence: Culture and Intelligence.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  67. Early Appropriation of Literacy in Sociocultural Context

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  68. Negotiating the Middle Ground Between the Ostensible and Shared Horizons: A Dynamic Approach to Cross-Cultural Communication about Human Development

    Article • Transcript Verlag

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  69. The Cultural Practice of Intelligence Testing: Problems of International Export.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  70. Participatory Appropriation and the Cultivation of Nurturance: A Case Study of African Primary Health Science Curriculum Development

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell

  71. Situated theory as a bridge between psychology, history, and educational practices

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emeritus Robert Serpell