History of the international conferences
on the teaching of psychology

Interest in the internationalization of psychological knowledge has increased dramatically in recent years, not only in research but also in the teaching of psychology. The First International Conference on Psychology Education was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2002 provided compelling evidence of this. It was an outstanding event that attracted about 100 representatives from 20 countries. We learned a lot about how psychology is taught around the globe. You can see materials from that Conference at the Web site:
http://ltsnpsy.york.ac.uk/LTSNPsych/icope2002/index.html.

Based on the information shared at the First conference a special issue International Practices in the Teaching of Psychology was edited by Victor Karandashev and Sherri McCarthy and published by the International Journal of Psychology, 2006, 41, (1).

Many attendees at that conference suggested that similar conferences on a regular basis would be useful, so the Second Conference on Psychology Education was held in Foz de Iguacu, Brazil, in 2005.

Based on the information shared at the Second conference the book Teaching Psychology around the World edited by Sherri McCarthy, Stephen Newstead, Victor Karandashev, Carlo Prandini, Claudio Hutz, and William Gomes was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2007.

The Third International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (ICTP-2008) will be held on July 12-16, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Russia (the conference was previously known as ICOPE and follows its tradition).