Eleine Sheppel <ellampert@igc.apc.org>
Eleine Sheppel (ellampert@igc.apc.org)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:31:34 -0700 (PDT)
Dear colleagues, I am happy to join cultural-historical group
discussions,I must agree with Pestalozzi who said:"that which nobody
searches, is never found. "My life happened to be strongly influenced
by L.Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory of human development.As a
child I graduated from one of the first two school-laboratories which
were established in Kharkov (Ukraine) and Moscow by the group of
researchers under the leadership of V.Davydov. The memories of exciting
experiences and learning transformations stayed with me for the rest of
my life.I tried not to forget them working as a Dean of Pedagogical
Faculty in Eureka University. My research interests were focussed on
designing Teacher Developmental Program based on the principals of
cultural-historical psychology and theory of activity, and models of
international projects among Eastern Europe, Western Europe and United
States.I immigrated to the United States two years ago and right now I
am in Columbia University,both teaching and studying as a doctoral
student, I am interested in post-modern perspectives of the Vygotsky
theory, implications and research in Teacher Education, notions of
teachers agency,; self, constructed through discourse, theoretical
thinking and "sense and meaning" of cultural mediation.