The life story of Vladimir Vladimirovich Repkin

Abstract

The article focuses on the biography of V.V. Repkin (25.12.1927 - 11.04.2022).  He was born and spent his childhood in Ukraine. He received a university education in two specialties: teacher of Russian language and psychology. Moreover, during his studies at the Psychology Department of Moscow State University, he initiated scientific research in psychology under the guidance of A.N. Leontiev. He also began to develop the system of developmental learning in 1963, when he was a postgraduate student of Prof. P.I. Zinchenko in the city of Kharkiv. For many years he was the founder and the leader of the Kharkiv Research Group of Developmental Learning. As a co-author of the system of developmental learning, he was mainly engaged in the psychological theory of learning activity and the development of training programs and teaching materials in the Russian language based on this theory; he provided consulting assistance in the creation of training courses and textbooks in other academic subjects. Since the mid-1970s he has been working on the preparation and since the end of the 1980s on the implementation of developmental education in mass schools. During this period, he paid the greatest attention to the problem of training and supporting teachers in mastering the system of developmental education and developing teaching materials for schools. The last years of his life were devoted to the analysis of theoretical problems of developmental education.  Family: wife Galina Viktorovna Repkin, psychologist, writer, daughters - Natalia, Antonina and Elena, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.