Education |
1982 |
University of Frankfurt, Germany. Doktor der Philosophie.
Area: second language acquisition and international education.
Written and defended in German. Supervisor: Gert Solmecke. |
1981 |
London University, England. Visiting Scholar. Applied Linguistics and TESOL under H.G. Widdowson and Chris Brumfit; sociolinguistics under Basil Bernstein.
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1975 |
University of Heidelberg, Germany. “Zertifikat” in GermanLanguage, Literature, Culture. |
1970 |
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas. B. A. inSociology and Philosophy. |
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Work Experience |
September 2008 |
retirement from the University of Central Missouri |
2008-1999 |
Full-Professor at University of Central Missouri |
2003-2004 |
Sabbatical, Moscow, Russia |
1999 |
Senior Fulbright Fellow of Applied Linguistics at Tolstoy Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures in Moscow, Russia. |
1998-1988 |
Assistant, later Associate Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Central Missouri. German and Spanish. |
(1993-92) |
sabbatical Visiting Lecturer of TESOL, Applied Linguistics, American Studies at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. |
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Books |
2008 |
Together with Vladislav Lektorsky, editors of a series of books called Perspectives in Non-Classical Russian Psychology. Nova Science Publishers.First book: Problems of Developmental Instruction: A Theoretical and Experimental Psychological Study. V. V. Davydov, translated by Peter Moxhay. |
2004 |
A. R. Luria and Contemporary Psychology: Festschrift Celebrating the Centennial of the Birth of Luria. Editors: T. Akhutina, J. Glozman, L. Moskovich, D. Robbins. New York: Nova Science. |
2003 |
Vygotsky’s and A. A. Leontiev’s Semiotics and Psycholinguistics: Applications for Education, Second Language Acquisition, and Theories of Language. CT: Praeger Publishers. |
2002 |
Voices within Vygotsky’s non-classical psychology: Past, present, future. Co-editor with Anna Stetsenko. New York: Nova Science. |
2001 |
Vygotsky’s psychology-philosophy: A metaphor for language theory and learning. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers. |
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Journal Issues (Guest Editor) |
2007 |
Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, In Memory of L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934), letters he wrote from 1926-1934. Vol. 45/2, March-April. |
2007 |
Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, on A. A. Puzyrei. Between the Scylla of Naturalism and Charybdis of Technicism: Vygotsky and the Third Way of Psychology. Vol. 45/1, January-February. |
2006 |
Guest editor of two special issues of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, on A. A. Leontiev. Beyond Barriers: Activity, Culture, Language Personality: In Memory of A. A. Leontiev. Vol. 44/3, May-June 2006, and Vol. 44/4, July-August 2006. |
2005 |
Guest editor of three special issues of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, A. N. Leontiev’s Creative Path, Vol. 43/3, May-June 2005; Vol. 43/4, July-August, 2005; Vol. 43/5, September-October, 2005. |
2004 |
Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, on L. I. Bozhovich, one of the closest workers of Vygotsky. Vol. 42/4. |
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Chapters in books: |
2007 |
Invited chapter titled “A. A. Leontiev’s Non-Classical Psycholinguistics.” In R. Alanen and S. Pöyhönen (Eds.), Language in Action: L.S. Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacies today. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. |
2007 |
Invited chapter titled “An Introduction to L. S. Vygotsky’s and A. A. Leontiev’s Non-Classical Psychology related to Second Language Acquisition. Diana Rumpite (Ed.) FIPLV (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes) Handbook. Titled Innovations in Language Teaching and Learning in the Multicultural Context. Riga, Latvia: Izglitibas soli. |
2003 |
Ъудущее вкладa. A. R. Луриа ь aмериканскую приклную социокулътурную лингвистику (A. R. Luria’s future contributions of American sociocultural applied linguistics). In T. V. Akhutina and J. M. Glozman (Eds.), Alexander Luria and Psychology of the twenty-first century (in Russian)(pp. 45-54). Moscow: Izdatelstvo “Smysl.” |
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Articles (some of these articles have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian): |
2007 |
Invitation by Wolfgang Jantzen to write an article titled “Semiotics of Thinking and Speech” for a German encyclopedia called Enzyklopädisches Handbuch der Behindertenpädagogik. |
2007 |
Critical Review of Sociocultural Theory: Redefining L. S. Vygotsky’s Non-Classical Psychology. International Pragmatics, Vol. 4, Nr. 1. pp. 85-97. |
2005 |
Применение Метафоры в Неклассической Теории Языка Л С Выготского (Generalized Metaphors in the non-Classical Theories of L. A. Vygotsky). In ВопросыФилософии (Questions in Philosophy)–Nr. 9, pp. 122-131. |
2005 |
Generalized Holographic Visions of Language in Vygotsky, Luria, Pribram, Eisenstein, and Volosinov. Intercultural Pragmatics, 2/1, 25-39. |
2005 |
Entendiendo la Metapsicología de Vigotsky. Eeclecta: Revista de Psicología General. Vol. III/9-10. pp. 16-20. San Luis Potosi, Mexico. |
2004 |
Aleksej Alekseevich goodbye…Invited thoughts on the death of my mentor, A. A. Leontiev. Invitation from Wolfgang Jantzen, in Mitteilungen der Luria Gesellschaft (Reports from the Luria Society), 4-5. |
2003 |
Vygotsky’s Non-classical Dialectical Metapsychology. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. Vol. 33, Issue 3, pp. 303-312. |
2003 |
Understanding Vygotsky’s Non-Classical Metapsychology. Jornal de Pscicologia, Vol. 3, Nr. 9. Lisbon, Portugal. |
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Editorial Board |
2009 |
Journal of Russian and East European Psychology |
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Recognition |
2010 |
Who’s Who in the World, 27th Edition |
2009 |
Who’s Who in America, 63rd Edition |
2009 |
Who’s Who in America |
2008-2009 |
Who's Who of American Women (50th Anniversary) |
2008 |
Who’s Who in American Women, 26th Edition |
2006-2007 |
Who’s Who in American Women, 25th Edition. |
2004-2005 |
Who’s Who in American Education. 6th Edition. |
2004 |
Who’s Who in America. 58th Edition. |
2000 |
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Nominated by a former student: Nanie Ecker. |
1998 |
Who's Who Among America’s Teachers. Nominated by a former student, Michele Turner Cabrera |
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Conferences |
2009 |
10th International Vygotsky Memorial Conference. Moscow. International Coordinator. |
2009 |
2nd International Vygotsky Summer School. June 19-28, 2009. International Coordinator. |
2009 |
International Linguistic Association. New York. Paper: Non-Classical Approaches to Traditional vs. Imaginative Methods in Foreign Language Methodology: University Undergraduate Level German Course. April 3-5, 2009. |
2008 |
International Society for Cultural and Activity Research. San Diego. Paper: Dynamic “Developmental” Assessment viewed Metatheoretically through the Zones of Potential Development (ZsPD).September 9-13, 2008. |
2008 |
Performing the World. New York. October 2-5, 2008. |
2008 |
9th International Vygotsky Memorial Conference. Moscow. Invited introductory speaker. Paper: Introduction to Non-Classical Psychology. November 17-20, 2008. |
