Stetsenko has outlined a socio-cultural activity theory and its potential positive and negative outcomes within the human development and learning. She has carried out extensive empirical research on adolescents and social development, closely related to issues of gender, self-concept and motivation. Her works are closely connected with the social-cultural interaction and daily activities of adolescents and children. Stetsenko's writings have a strong emphasis on multicultural theories in developmental psychology. She has also conducted research on the works of Vygotsky, Leontiev and Alexander Luria. Stetsenko has published numerous book chapters, textbooks, and journal articles in German, English, and Russian. Stetsenko is a professor at the CityUniversity of New York and former head of the Ph.D program in developmental psychology at the university.
Publications and editorial activities
Stetsenko, A.. The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's approach to development and education. Cambridge University Press.
Stetsenko, A.. The birth of consciousness: Early stages in the development of systems of meanings . Moscow: CheRo Press.
Stetsenko, A.. Introduction to "Tool and sign" by Lev Vygotsky. In R. Rieber and D. Robbinson, Essential Vygotsky. NY etc.: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum.
Robbins, D., & Stetsenko, A. . Vygotsky's psychology: Voices from the past and present. New York: Nova Science Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "Vygotsky's cultural-historical activity theory: Collaborative practice and knowledge construction process". In D. Robbins and A. Stetsenko, Vygotsky's psychology: Voices from the past and present. New York: Nova Science Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "Sociocultural activity as a unit of analysis: How Vygotsky and Piaget converge in empirical research on collaborative cognition". In D. Bearison and B. Dorval, Collaborative cognition: Children negotiating ways of knowing. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Stetsenko, A.. "Adolescents in Russia: Trends and developments". In B. Bradford Brown & R. Larsson, The world of adolescence: Changing paths to adulthood around the globe. New York etc.: Cambridge University Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "Social interaction, cultural tools, and the zone of proximal development: In search of a synthesis". In M. Hedegaard, S. Chaiklin, S. Boedker, & U. J. Jensen, Activity theory and social practice. Proceedings of the ISCRAT 1998: Keynote speeches and panels. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Grob, A., Stetsenko, A., Sabatier, C., Botcheva, L., & Macek, P.. "Across-national model of subjective well-being in adolescence". In F. D. Alsaker & A. Flammer, The Adolescent Experience: European and American Adolescents in the 1990s. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Stetsenko, A.. "Teorii tvorchestva: sotsiokulturnij podhod" . In D. B. Bogojavlenskaja, Teorii tvorchestva . Moscow: Molodaja Gvardija.
Stetsenko, A., & Arievitch, I.. "The zone of proximal development"". In J. Lompscher, Entwicklung und lernen aus kulturhistorischer Sicht . Marburg: BdWi-Verlag.
Stetsenko, A.. "The psychological functions of children's drawing: A Vygotskian perspective". In G. Thomas and Ch. Lange-Küttner, Drawing and Looking. New York etc.: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Stetsenko, A.. "Naturalisticheskaja i sotsio-kulturnaja paradigmi v issledovanijah fenomena odarennosti" . In A. Matjushkin, Obshestvennije dvizhenija i sotsialnaja aktivnost molodezhi . Moscow: Institute of Sociology Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "Printsip predmetnosti v teorii dejatelnosti" . In V. V. Davydov & D. A. Leontjev, Dejatelnostnij podhod v psihologii: Problemi i perspektivi . Moscow: USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "O diahrinicheskom printsipe istoriko-psihologicheskogo analiza nauchnih kontsepsij" . In A. Zhdan, Izuchenije traditsij i nauchnih shkol v istorii sovetskoj psihologii . Moscow: Moscow University Press.
Stetsenko, A.. Issledovatelskaja zadacha i struktura psihologicheskogo znanija . In A. Barabanchikov, Metodologija psihologicheskogo issledovanija . Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences Press.
Arievitch I., & Stetsenko, A.. "Dejatelnostnij podhod k probleme soznanija" . In A. Prokhorov et al., Genezis, struktura i funktsii individualnogo soznanija . Ivanovo: University Press.
Stetsenko, A.. "Vygotskij i problema znachenija" . In V. V. Davydov, Nauchnoe tvorchestvo L. S. Vigotskogo i sovremennaja psihologijaScientific works of L. S. Vygotsky and modern psychology. Moscow: USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences Press.
