Rate My Professor Nikolay Veresov

Veresov's research specializations encompass child development in the early years, cultural-historical theory, and cultural-historical research methodology in early childhood education. He has authored five books, including Undiscovered Vygotsky: Etudes on the pre-history of cultural-historical psychology (1999), Resolving Conflicts in Collectives: Formula of Opposition (2012), Conversation Analysis and A Cultural-Historical Approach: Comparing Research Perspectives on Children’s Storytellings (2023, with A. Filipi and C. Davidson), Child Development Within Contexts: Cultural-Historical Research and Educational Practice (2024, with S. Kewalramani and J. Ma), and Диалоги о Выготском (2025, with N. Veraksa). Over 120 articles and book chapters by Veresov appear in ten languages, featuring highly cited works such as Perezhivanie as a Theoretical Concept for Researching Young Children’s Development (2016, with M. Fleer; 257 citations), The concept of perezhivanie in cultural-historical theory: Content and contexts (2017; 241 citations), and recent publications like Historical, theoretical and methodological foundations of CHAT: critical deliberations (2025) and Observing and assessing role play in early childhood: evaluation of the Play Matrix tool (2025, with N. Veraksa et al.). He has led projects funded by the Australian Research Council, including Building executive function in imaginary play (2015-2019), and collaborations with the Victorian Department of Education.