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Activity Theory

11 Sep

Posted at 03:34h in Activity Theory, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein

We’ve revamped the popular in-depth online course in social therapeutics: SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS & THE PRACTICE OF METHOD January 2016 begins the 7th year I’ve been leading the East Side Institute’s online certificate program in social therapeutics. In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to...

15 May

Posted at 18:55h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Youth Development

For this year's Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association in Chicago, I organized a symposium to bring Vygotsky's relevance to bear on the conference theme of "social justice." It worked! Those who attended the symposium—which I titled Vygotsky and Social Justice: Community Education and Community Development"—told me how...

25 Mar

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky

I'm honored to be receiving an award at the upcoming American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. It's really an award for everyone in the growing international development community. I'll post my talk at the end of April, so check back next month. ...

23 Mar

Posted at 17:16h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

On March 16 I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at which four Japanese colleagues presented their work. They were visiting the East Side Institute and All Stars Project to learn more, after having participated in a workshop I led months earlier in Kobe Japan. On their last day...

13 Aug

Posted at 01:33h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...

15 Mar

Posted at 14:37h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein

  Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...

12 Jan

Posted at 03:27h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Language, Philosophy, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

Here’s something I’ve been mulling over for a long time (decades!): the “blessing and the curse” that is human language. What an invention! Making sounds together creating meanings, meanings creating and shaping and reshaping perceptions, concepts, beliefs, feelings, relationships, images, imagination… What we have done and continue to do with, and...

20 Sep

Posted at 18:26h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky

September 20, 2013 Although Vygotsky’s ideas are applied to dozens of disciplines/practices, psychotherapy is not among them. With few exceptions, contemporary Vygotskians have stayed clear of the sub- ject; and most psychotherapy researchers and clinical practitioners have little familiarity with Vygotsky—despite Vygotsky’s challenge to psychology’s isolation of the intellectual from the...

23 Aug

Posted at 21:57h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky

August 23, 2013 I’ve spent much of today gathering and reading bits of articles on imagination, play and creativity. Among them is a piece by Lev Vygotsky entitled, “Imagination and Creativity in Childhood”(translated into English from the Russian and published in 2004 in the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology)....