Ivan Bekh (born October 9, 1940) is a professor who currently holds the position of Director of the Institute for Educational Problems.
[1] He was born in Vilchya, a village in the Polissya district of the Kiev Oblast province, and he is a respected member of the science and technology fields in Ukraine.
Bekh is also a doctor of psychology (Doktor nauk) and an active member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.
[citation needed] Ivan Bekh graduated from the Faculty of Defectology, Pedagogics and Psychology at Ukraine's National Dragomanov Pedagogical University in 1964.
He created a unique theory of person-oriented education, an original concept of rules-driven subject-subject interaction and an act concept.