Andrey Alexandrovich Verbitsky , is a Russian educational psychologist.
Education
Verbitsky holds an undergraduate Specialist degree in Psychology from Lomonosov. He holds a Kandidat nauk in Psychology degree, conferred in 1974 by Aspirantura at the Research Institute of General and al Psychology at Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Verbitsky also holds a Doktor Nauk in and Psychology degree (1991), and is a Corresponding Fellow (since 1992) of the Russian Academy of.
Career
His areas of academic interest include the development of higher education in Russia, as well as developmental, educational, and social psychology. He has published more than 200 academic and instructional papers, including five monographs. Verbitsky is the creator of the Context Theory in higher education (Russian: Теория контекстного обучения в системе профессионального образования) (see ru:Контекстное обучение).
Practical techniques based on this theory have been developed and implemented in Russia since 1982.
His other area of interest is the psychological foundations of higher education. In her book, Doctor I.A. Zimniaya (Russian: Ирина Алексеевна Зимняя) quotes Doctor Verbitsky"s six major tendencies for Russian education in the beginning of the 21st century.
In 1978 Verbitsky was a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization intern in the United States of America and France. He is a full professor at the Chair of Humanities at the "Link" International Institute of Management in Moscow (Russian: Международный институт менеджмента ЛИНК).
He is also a full professor at the Department of Psychology at Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities, and the Head of the Chair of Social and al Psychology at the same University.
He was also a visiting professor at several universities.