Professional Team
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Professional Team |
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| Reuven
Feuerstein: Ph.D - Chairman Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein - Deputy Chairman Alex Kozulin: Ph.D - Director of Research Steven Gross: Ph.D - Director of International Services Lou Falik: Ph.D - Clinical and Training Associate Anat Cagan, Director of the Instrumental Enrichment Program Dr Sari Alony - Head of the Paradigmatic Clinic for Early Childhood
Education Current
Positions Professional
Experience and Activities During the period of 1950-54 Feuerstein served as Director of Psychological Services of Youth Aliyah in Europe, responsible for assigning prospective candidates for emigration from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and European countries to various educational programs in Israel. In the early 1950s he was involved in research on Moroccan, Jewish, and Berber children in collaboration with several members of the “Genevan" school, including Professors André Rey, Marc Richelle, and Maurice Jeannet. It was during this period that much of the psychological data was gathered that contributed to his development of concepts of cultural difference and cultural deprivation. This period was also seminal in the development of his working hypotheses concerning low functioning children and their potential for change. In 1955 the basis was laid for the Youth Aliyah Child Guidance Clinics in several sites in Israel, which Professor Feuerstein directed from their inception until his retirement from this position in 1983. Together with Professors David Krasilowsky, Yaacov Rand, and Mr. Shimon Tuchman, Professor Feuerstein founded the Hadassah-WIZO-Canada Research Institute, which continues to function within the structure of the ICELP. Among Feuerstein's research and development activities are studies on Holocaust survivors, new immigrant students, Down Syndrome children and young adults, brain injured individuals and children with autistic features. He is involved in ongoing development of the dynamic cognitive assessment and Instrumental Enrichment techniques for children and adults. The seminal nature of Professor Feuerstein's work is evidenced by the thousands of people who have studied his theories and programs. The models of dynamic assessment and Instrumental Enrichment procedures have been adapted and disseminated throughout the world. The IE program has been translated into 18 languages, and there are more than 70 Authorized Training Centers throughout the world affiliated with the ICELP, carrying on the work by providing training, services, and program development. Honors and Recognition
1986 Detroit Public Schools, Special Commendation Publications |
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Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein - Deputy Chairman Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein was born and educated in Israel. His higher education began in the‘Merkaz Harav’ Yeshiva in Jerusalem and continued at the ‘Pesagot’ Institute for Higher Education in Dayan Studies [to become a Religious Judge]. In 1994 Rafi Feuerstein was ordained as a Rabbi and he began studies for an MA in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1995 he acted as founder and member of the Board of the ‘Tzohar’ Organization. He also spent five years as the rabbi of Kibbutz Ein Tzurim, until the year 2000. Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein has also
held the position of Vice-Chairman of the International
Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential
from 1994 to date. He delivers workshops and lectures
in Israel and around the world, in academic international
conferences and other settings, on theoretical areas
of Cognitive Psychology and dynamic assessment (LPAD
– Learning Propensity Assessment Device).
Together with his father, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein,
he has developed the LPAD-Basic Battery of Tests
for the cognitive-dynamic assessment of pre-school
children, as well as the Downward Extension of Instrumental
Enrichment (IE-B) program. Rabbi Feuerstein is presently
working researching his doctoral thesis, which aims
to appraise the link between air force cadets’
meta-cognitive functioning, using mediated learning
techniques, and the decrease in in-flight stress
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Alex Kozulin: Ph.D - Director of Research Alex Kozulin is the Director of Research at the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential in Jerusalem. Born in Moscow, Russia he earned his Ph.D. in Psychology at the Psychological Institute. In 1979 he immigrated to the US. For the following ten years he conducted research and teaching at Boston University. 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. His interests include cognition, learning, and cross-cultural studies. Prof. Kozulin is one of the major specialists in Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and the theory of mediated learning experience.
He is the author of Vygotsky's Psychology: A Biography
of Ideas (Harvard University Press, 1990), Psychological
Tools: A Sociocultural Approach to Education (Harvard
University Press, 1998), a co-author (with Erica
Garb) of I Think, Therefore…I Read: Cognitive
Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language
(Jerusalem: Academon, 2002), and a co-editor (with
Y.Rand) of Experience of Mediated Learning (Pergamon
Press, 2000). |
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| Steven Gross: Ph.D - Director of International Services Director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation
and Cognitive Development Before coming to Israel with his wife and three children he was Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and clinical therapist in the Department of Health and Counseling Services at Loretto Heights College in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. While in supervised private practice at the Rose Medical Center Professional Office he specialized in the areas of medical psychology, neuropsychology and family therapy. Prior to holding those positions he was Assistant Administrator and Director of Rehabilitation and Social Services at a 250 bed residential rehabilitation hospital for disabled youth, adult and geriatric populations. In addition to his current assessment and treatment responsibilities at the Center in Jerusalem, several times a year Professor Gross lectures, gives professional training and supervision, and conducts clinical assessments and therapeutic treatment programs for children and young adults throughout Europe and North America. During the past 15 years he has
concentrated on the clinical and educational development
of higher, more effective, and more permanent cognitive,
emotional and behavioral functions in young and
low functioning children with developmental disabilities
and neuro-trauma. Professor Gross directs, under
Professor Feuerstein's daily leadership and inspiration,
a highly successful multidisciplinary treatment
team approach to cognitive development based upon
the Theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability,
Mediated Learning Experience and Parental Training. |
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| Lou
Falik: Ph.D - Clinical and Training Associate
Professor Lou Falik has been ICELP’s Clinical and Training Associate since 1988. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the Wayne State University in the US. Since 1966 he has been teaching at the Department of Counseling, School of Education, San Francisco State University. He was the Acting Chair of the Department, in 2000-2001 academic year. The primary focus of his teaching was mental health counseling, clinical skills practice, legal and professional practice, marriage and family counseling. Prof. Falik was a visiting scholar at the Michigan State University, visiting professor at Konan University, Kobe, Japan, and visiting lecturer in special education and counseling at Haifa University, Israel. Prof. Falik conducted training workshops in the Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) and Instrumental Enrichment in North America, Europe, Asia (India, Singapore, Indonesia) and Australia. He has published extensively on learning disabilities, counseling and dynamic assessment. Many of his articles and book chapters are co-authored with Prof. Reuven Feuerstein.
Selected Bibliography:
Feuerstein, R., Falik, L. H., & Feuerstein, R. S. (1998) The Learning Potential Assessment Device: an alternative approach to the assessment of learning potential. In R. Samuda, R. Feuerstein, B. Sternberg, A.S. Kaufman, and J. Lewis (eds.) Advances in cross cultural assessment. New York: Sage. Feuerstein, R.. Falik, L. H., and Feuerstein, R. S. (1998) Definitions of Essential Concepts and Terms: A working glossary. Jerusalem: ICELP Press. Falik, L. H. (2000) Mediated learning experience and the counseling process. In Kozulin, A. and Rand, Y. (Eds.) Experience of Mediated Learning: An impact of Feuerstein’s theory in Education and Psychology. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
Feuerstein, R., Feuerstein, R. S., Falik, L. H.,
Rand, Y. (2003) The Dynamic Assessment of Cognitive
Modifiability: The Learning Propensity Assessment
Device: Theory, Instruments, and Techniques. Jerusalem:
ICELP Press. |
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Anat
Cagan, Director of the Instrumental Enrichment Program.Anat Cagan has been an Instrumental
Enrichment teacher, supervisor and teacher trainer
since 1979. She received a B.A. in Educational Counseling
from Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva and an M.A.
in Organizational Behavior from Tel Aviv University
and Liverpool University. Anat Cagan is responsible
for the implementation of Instrumental Enrichment
programs in Israel in special and regular schools,
industrial companies, adult education programs,
and military colleges. She has taught courses in
thinking and decision making skills, adjustment
and coping behavior. |
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Dr Sari Alony - Head of the Paradigmatic Clinic for Early Childhood Dr Sari Alony is Head of the Paradigmatic Clinic for Early Childhood and Head of the Shulamit Yosupovici Institute for Parental Guidance at the International Center. In addition she is a Lecturer and supervisor in Developmental Psychology at the School of Nutritional Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr Alony received her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from the Cognitive Science Center, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto. Canada.) She recived an M.A. degree in Counseling and Special Education and B.A. in Early Childhood and Criminology from the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She presented at many international conferences on issues focusing on early assessment, intervention and parental guidance. This year she also coordinated a symposium on Assessment at the first International ISEI (International Society on Early Intervention) Congress – within the 4th European Congress on Mental Health and Mental Retardation: A Lifespan Multidisciplinary Approach. Rome, Italy, September 12-20th. Among her publications:
Ph.D. Dissertation on the subject: Klein. P. S., & Alony, S. (1993). Immediate and sustained effects of maternal mediating behaviors on young children. Journal of Early Intervention. 17 (2), 177-193.
MA Thesis on the subject:
Klein P. S., Mogilner B.M., Mogilner C., Alkon (Alony)
S., et al. (1982). The relationship between maternal
visiting patterns and the development of premature
infants. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and
Gynecology.1-3 4. |
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