Kozulin

Alex Kozulin, Ph.D. – Research Director

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The International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP)

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Born in Moscow, Russia he earned his Ph.D. at the Psychological Institute in Moscow. In 1979 he immigrated to the US. For the following ten years he was conducting research and teaching at Boston University, USA. Since 1990 he has been the research director at the ICELP in Jerusalem. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a visiting professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He also taught at Ben-Gurion University, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv University, and Hebrew University in Israel. Areas of interest to him include cognition, learning, and cross-cultural studies. Dr. Kozulin is one of the major specialists in Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and the theory of mediated learning experience.

Selected publications:

1984 Kozulin, A. Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology by Alex Kozulin (Paperback - Mar 29, 1984) Buy new: $20.00 11 Used & new from $20.00

1986 Kozulin, A. (Translator and editor), Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language (Revised Edition). Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1986. (www.mitpress.mit.edu)

1990 Kozulin, A., Vygotsky's Psychology: A Biography of Ideas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990 (Spanish translation: La psicologia de Vygotski. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1994). (www.hup.harvard.edu)

1997 Kozulin, A. (Ed.), The Ontogeny of Cognitive Modifiability: Applied Aspects of Mediated Learning Experience and Instrumental Enrichment. Jerusalem: ICELP, 1997. (Publications)

1998 Kozulin, A , Psychological Tools: A Sociocultural Approach to Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. (Spanish translation: Instrumentos Psicologicos. Barcelona: Paidos Iberica, 2000). (www.hup.harvard.edu)

2000 Kozulin, A. and Rand, B. Y. (Eds.), Experience of Mediated Learning: An Impact of Feuerstein's Theory in Education and Psychology y. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 2000. (www.elsevier.nl)

2002 Kozulin, A. (Scientific advisor), I Think…Therefore I Read: Cognitive approach to teaching EFL reading by Erica Garb (workbook and teachers guide). Jerusalem: Academon, 2002.

2003 Kozulin, A. and Eilam, G. (Eds.), Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Culture: Collection of Papers (Hebrew translation). Jerusalem: Branco Weiss Institute, 2003.

2003 Kozulin, A, Gindis B, Ageyev VS, Miller SM (Eds.), 'Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Lecture

Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (The OSAT Centre)

University of Oxford Department of Educational Studies

Presents (download the flyer in pdf)

Professor Alex Kozulin

'Why is Vygotsky important and what is his legacy to education?'

25 October 2006, 5-6.30p.m.

15, Norham Gardens, Garden Building, Oxford, OX2 6PY

Convened by Professor Anne Edwards

Contact information:

Phone: 972-2-5693344

FAX: 972-2-5619815

e-mail: kozulin@post.tau.ac.il