ABSTRACT
Feuerstein, a clinical psychologist and former pupil of Piaget, developed his ideas and beliefs about intelligence and learning while working for the Youth Aliyah Movement during the 1950s where he was dealing with the assessment and education of orphaned, traumatized immigrants coming to Israel after the Holocaust. Over many years of clinical work, Feuerstein came to believe in the enormous plasticity and modifiability of the human intellect and the crucial role played by significant adults in mediating the child’s cognitive development.
