Anatoli Rapoport

Assistant Professor
Social Studies Program
Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Research

Civic Education, international education, comparative education, comparative methods in education, cultural aspects of education, history of education

Education

Ph.D.	Purdue University, Social Studies Education
M.S.	Purdue University, Social Studies Education
B.A.	Tula State Pedagogical University, Foreign Language Education

Selected Publications

• Rapoport, A. (in print-2009). Patriotic education in Russia: Stylistic move or the sign of substantive counter-reform? The Educational Forum 73(1).
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (in print-2009). A forgotten concept: Global citizenship education and state social studies standards. Journal of Social Studies Research 33(1), 75-93.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2008). Chained together: Education for global citizenship and human rights(in Russian).[Svyazannye odnoi tsepyu: Obrazovaniye v oblasti prav cheloveka I obrazovaniye v duhe global’nogo grazhdanstva]. In V. Anikin and R. Kleiman (Eds.) Civic education and human rights (pp. 18-34). Pontos: Chisinau, Moldova
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2008). The impact of international programs on careers and pedagogical practices of their participants: Russian experience. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice14(3), 225-238.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2008). Exchange programs for educators: American and Russian perspectives. Intercultural Education, 19(1), 67-77.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2007). Fields unknown: Russian and American teachers on their exchange experiences. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2007). The role of academic credits in the evaluation of learning outcomes (in Russian). Sbornik nauchnykh trudov Tulskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta (pp.50-55) Tula State Pedagogical University
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2007). International exchange programs for educators: The role of participants’ culture in the interpretation of results. International Education 36(2), 83-105.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2006). "Least known to Americans": Content materials about the Soviet Union in the 1949s-1950s. The Social Studies, 97(2) 56-61.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2006). Beware of Greeks? Some aspects of inter-cultural communication in international training programs for educators. Intercultural Education, 17(2) 179-194.
  
  
• Nelson, L., & Rapoport, A. (2005). Russian civic education and social studies education at Purdue University. International Journal of Social Education.
       
• Rapoport, A. (2004). International studies brought to light. Viewpoints, 34(2), 6.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2004). Hope, hostility, interest: What motivated teachers to teach about the Soviet Union after World War II. International Journal of Social Education, 19(1), 48-63.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2003). On the development of multicultural competency of future teachers (in Bulgarian). In Prevantivna pedagogika kato nauchno poznaniye (pp. 64-74). Sofia: Sofia St. Clement University.
  
  
• Nelson, L., Drake, F., & Rapoport, A. (2002). The teaching and learning of History in the education of democratic citizens in Russia and the United States (in Russian). In V. Fokine (Ed.), Grazhdanskoye obrazovaniye: Otechestvennyi i zarubezhnyi opyt v podgotovke pedagogo (pp. 57-66). Tula State Pedagogical University.
  
  
• Rapoport, A. (2002). About some aspects and problems of multicultural education (in Russian). In V. Fokine (Ed.), Grazhdanskoye obrazovaniye: Otechestvennyi i zarubezhnyi opyt v podgotovke pedagogov (pp. 114-121). Tula State University.

Courses Taught

EDCI 361	Social Studies Methods in Elementary School
EDCI 423	Social Studies Methods in Secondary School
EDCI 591	Comparative Education and Comparative Methods in Social Science Education

Professional Experience

2006-present	Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2000-2006	Research Assistant, James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2003-2004	Teaching Assistant, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2003-2005	Study Abroad Program Coordinator, College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN