Academic degree: Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences

Academic status: Professor

Postgraduate specialty: 13.00.01 – General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education

He was destined to devote all his life to pedagogics. Alexander Ivanovich was born 1 September 1918, in the village of Znamenka located in Zhigalovsky disctrict of the Irkutsk region. In 1936, as he entered the Irkutsk state university, he was urgently sent to the Kyrinsk district to work as a teacher at the Lubavinskaya school. In 1939 Alexander Ivanovich was taken to the Soviet Army. Then the World War II started. The junior lieutenant A.I. Dulov was in command of a rifle unit at the front. In September 1942, he was seriously wounded and contused, and then he was discharged. Alexander Ivanovich was still recovering but had to continue his work as a teacher and a head of schools. Among them are the Khapcheranginskaya School in the Chitinsky region, school № 14 and school № 15 in Irkutsk. In 1947 A.I. Dulov graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Irkutsk state pedagogical institute correspondently. As a school director Alexander Ivanovich successfully carried out a scientific research and afterwards took his Doctor’s thesis.

In the years between 1953 and 1960 he has been the head of the Department of Pedagogics in the Irkutsk pedagogical institute of foreign languages, where he was a rector, too. In 1973 he took his Doctor’s thesis.

In the years between 1960 and 1985 Alexander Ivanovich has been the head of the Department of Pedagogics in the Irkutsk pedagogical institute, and then worked as a professor of the Chair of Pedagogics in the Irkutsk state linguistic university.

Alexander Ivanovich was a founder and a head of «the Eastern-Siberian laboratory of the moral educational problems» organized by the USSR where he has worked more than 25 years.

Thousands of school teachers, students and educators were working in the laboratory.

It’s hardly possible to overestimate A.I. Dulov’s contribution to the development of the home pedagogical science. He devoted all his scientific life to the problem of students’ moral education that is still actual today.

His books «The content, forms and methods of the class teacher’s working» and «Fundamentals of moral education in the educational process» have been translated into several European and Oriental languages. All the works of the Professor A. I. Dulov contain an important idea about education as a creative process. He published more than 113 scientific works, including the textbooks «Pedagogics» (1970), «The logical framework of the pedagogics course» as well as the monograph «Scientific and pedagogical school» (1999) that reviews the scientist’s scientific heritage. Alexander Ivanovich was a scientific adviser for more than 300 Candidates of Pedagogics and consulted some Doctors of Science.

A. I. Dulov’s  war and scientific achievements were awarded with medals of the World War II, the medal for the best schooling and educating, the medal of K. D. Ushinsky.