Boris Bim-Bad | |
Native Name: | Борис Бим-Бад |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Birth Name: | Boris Mikhailovich Bim-Bad |
Birth Date: | 28 December 1941 |
Birth Place: | Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Field: | Research on the theory and history of education, educational anthropology |
Work Institution: | Head of the Department of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages |
Alma Mater: | Moscow State Pedagogical University (Faculty of History) |
Spouse: | Lyudmila Bim-Bad |
Boris Mikhailovich Bim-Bad (Russian: Борис Михайлович Бим-Бад; 28 December 1941 – 1 March 2023) was a Soviet and Russian teacher[1] and member of the Russian Academy of Education. Bim-Bad, who had an EdD, was a professor and member of the International Philosophical and Cosmological Society.
Bim-Bad was born in the family of Mikhail Isaakovich Bim-Bad (1901–1960).[2] His uncle, Professor Max Isaakovich Bim-Bad (1914–1996), was the founder and first head of the Department of Economics of road facilities of the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute.[3]
Bim-Bad was a graduate of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and the Rector of the Russian Open University, later transformed into the University of the Russian Academy of Education.
From 2001 to 2002, he was leading the game show I Know Everything! on channel TV-6.[4] In his opinion, "atheism is a faith, but a savage".[5]
Bim-Bad died on 1 March 2023, at the age of 81.[6] [7]