Eugene Matusov

Photo of Eugene Matusov Professor of Education, School of Education, University of Delaware. My research and educational interest is dialogic pedagogy and studying how to design safe learning environments for all students. I want to learn from informal settings and innovative educational institutions how to design for learning without failure and to provide sensitive guidance. Following Dr. Jean Lave, I believe that learning is an aspect of any activity. Since everybody learns all the time, the question for educators is not whether a student learns form a lesson or not but what exactly people learn from their engagement in the activities. I argue that learning can be holistically understood as people becoming members of their communities of practice. In this sociocultural approach, learning is viewed as transformation of participation in a sociocultural practice. Sometimes due to political, economic, historical, social, and cultural reasons, person's access to meaningful participation in practices is blocked and desirable learning is arrested. I am interested in the process of how the access to participation in valuable practices meaningful for a learner is systematically denied and of how people learn to become "disabled" in institutional settings (especially, in schools) as a result of this... read more

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Eugene Matusov
Willard Hall, Room#206D
School of Education
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-1266 (office);
Fax: (302) 831-4110
E-mail address: ematusov@udel.edu

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Educational History

Ph.D., 1994, University of California at Santa Cruz in Developmental Psychology. Title of Dissertation: "Educational Philosophy Differences Related to Parents' Experience Volunteering in a Community of Learners School" (advisor - Dr. Barbara Rogoff )
M.S., 1993, University of Utah in Developmental Psychology. Title of Master's Thesis: "Collaboration and Assistance in Joint Problem Solving by Children Differing in Cooperative Schooling Backgrounds." (advisor - Dr. Barbara Rogoff )
M.S., 1982. Moscow Institute, Moscow, USSR, in Computer Science and Transport Economy,.
B.S. (associated), 1984, Moscow Teachers Qualification Institute, Moscow, USSR; major - Education; minor - Physics and Mathematics. Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, 1978-1982; major - Developmental Psychology. (Unofficial attendance, due to the political situation degree not allowed.)
High School Diploma, 1977, Moscow Math School#91, Davydov's lab school, Moscow, USSR.