Reuven Feuerstein

Reuven Feuerstein was a Romanian-born Israeli clinical, developmental and cognitive psychologist known for his theory of the structural modifiability of intelligence. He developed the concepts of mediated learning experience and the cognitive map, along with tools including the Learning Propensity Assessment Device and Instrumental Enrichment programs, which gave educators systematic ways to develop students' cognitive functions. He founded and directed the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential in Jerusalem, and his theories and applied methods have been used in clinical and classroom settings in more than eighty countries.