International research on the effectiveness of the Instrumental Enrichment – Basic program with special needs children.
The research is sponsored by the Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani (Milan, Italy). The following research groups are currently participating in this research project together with ICELP:
Associazione Italiana Assistenza Spastici, Milan, Italy (Antonia Madella Noja);
University Diego Portales, Center for Cognitive Development, Santiago, Chile (Fernando Gonzales);
Mediated Learning Academy, Vancouver, Canada (Kathleen Jeffrey);
Southwick Elementary School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA (Jeanne Zehr);
Feuerstein Centrum Nederlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Jo Lebeer).

Follow-up on psychological, social and vocational integration of young adults with Down Syndrome.
The research focuses on young adults with Down Syndrome who received dynamic cognitive assessment at the ICELP when they were children.

Research of the effectiveness of an early intervention program for children with Down Syndrome and other genetic and developmental problems.
Research on the enhancement of learning potential of pre-school special needs children who receive an intensive MLE-based enrichment program aimed at preparing them for integration into regular educational frameworks.

Research on the use of the principles of Instrumental Enrichment for preparation of middle-school students for science exams.
The research is aimed at the evaluation the effectiveness of a new program combining Instrumental Enrichment and science problem solving tasks. The research is carried out in a regular middle-school in Jerusalem.

Research on the use of dynamic cognitive assessment for placing recruits of Ethiopian origin into high-level army training courses.
The research analyzes the results of dynamic cognitive assessment carried out by the ICELP in 2005/06 at the request of Israel Defense Forces.

Alex Kozulin, Ph.D. – Research Director
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:
Kozulin, A. (Translator and editor), Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language (Revised edition). Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,1986. (www.mitpress.mit.edu)

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

Contact information:
Phone: 972-2-5693344
FAX: 972-2-5619815
e-mail: kozulin@post.tau.ac.il