Keynote Speakers

The 17th Annual EECERA Conference includes researchers and practitioners, active in promoting the ideas of Vygotsky or their current applications. We are honored to have as a keynote speaker and member of the Conference Organizing Committee the granddaughter of Lev Vygotsky, Ms. Yelena Yevgenyevna Kravtsova, Ph.D., an educator and psychologist from Moscow.

Elena Kravtsova, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, L. S. Vygotsky Psychology Institute (Russia)

Elena Bodrova, Principal Researcher, Mid-continent Reserach for Education and Learning (McREL), Denver, Colorado (United States)

Bert van Oers, Professor of Cultural-historical Theory of Education. Department Theory and Research in Education, Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands) www.bertvanoers.nl)

James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences, Director, McDonnell International Scholars Academy Campus (United States)

Susanna Mantovani, Professor of Education, University of Milan, Bicocca (Italy)