Elina Lampert-Shepel

Elina Lampert Shepel, a former Dean of the School of Education at Eureka University
(Moscow, Russia), is currently Assistant Professor of Education at Mercy College Graduate School of Education, New Teacher Residency Program. As a Vygotskian scholar, Elina coordinated the research, development and implementation of teacher education program based on the principles of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical concept and activity theory at Eureka University. As a member of a distinguished group of Russian Vygotskian scholars, she worked on the implementation of Elkonin-Davydov curriculum in regular public schools. She worked as a teacher educator internationally, establishing the dialogue among innovative educational communities. She has recently conducted cross-cultural research on teachers’ reflective actions in Russian and American Dewey schools.

Sample publications:
Lampert -Shepel, E. (September-October, 2003) (Ed.) Learning Activity. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, 41(4).
Lampert -Shepel, E. (1999) Reflective thinking in educational praxis: analysis of multiple perspectives. Educational Foundations, 13(3), 69-88.
Lampert-Shepel, E. (1995). Teacher self-identification in culture from Vygotsky’s developmental perspective. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 26.

cognition and culture, cultural-historical psychology and activity theory, postmodernism, teacher education