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Activity Theory

29 Dec Vygotsky: With and Without Truth

Posted at 19:16h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Popular Posts, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment

December 28, 2009 I ended 2009 with two adventures—one in Russia and the other in Serbia. Two different trips, two different countries, two different organizing milieus—connected in our collective histories with each other and with Vygotsky. I spent a week in Moscow and its surrounds, mostly at the 10th Annual Vygotsky Memorial...

17 Sep Performing Psychology in Denmark

Posted at 19:21h in Activity Theory, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

September 17, 2009 Esben Wilstrup—self-described Danish roleplayer, postgraduate psychology student, and playful activist— and former student and very much current friend and colleague has just launched a blog. He calls it Performing Psychology. Check it out and talk to Esben!...

16 Sep Creativity and Zones of Proximal Development

Posted at 17:15h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments

September 16, 2009 Quite a few readers have asked to read the entire chapter I quoted from in my post, Could Developmental After School Eliminate the Need for Remediation? So I've just added it to articles/chapters/talks (above). The title of the chapter is Without Creating ZPDs There is no Creativity...

19 Aug Reviews for Vygotsky at Work and Play

Posted at 20:08h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Reviews, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 0 Comments

August 19, 2009 Popular books, especially if they relate to current events, get reviewed as soon as they are published—and sometimes before. Not so academic books. Alas, it's typically a year before a review appears in print. So I was pleasantly surprised today to find an email in my inbox from...

20 Jul Could Developmental After School Eliminate the Need for Remediation?

Posted at 23:18h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School 0 Comments

In the extreme, schooling transforms not knowing into a deficit; creative imitation into individualized accomplishments, rote learning and testing; and completion into correction and competition. This is the current situation. This is what schools do and don’t do. I...

12 Apr The International Class 2009-2010—A Global Learning Community

Posted at 03:22h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Performance Movement, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Training/Classes 1 Comment

April 10, 2009 "It is not only a Vygotskian atmosphere where professionals share different backgrounds, but a zone where you may improve your human skills and to help others to perform a better world." --Ignacio Dalton, educational researcher, Buenos Aires Argentina "The class has been such a wonderful support system, helping...

09 Apr Thought is not expressed but completed in the word

Posted at 03:07h in Activity Theory, Language, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 2 Comments

April 7, 2009 I've been making a series of presentations in recent months around New York City and I've thoroughly enjoyed speaking with diverse audiences of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staffs at universities, conferences and human service organizations. The topics of my talks have varied—"Play is the Thing," "Learning in...

18 Mar Now There’s a Blog of Proximal Development

Posted at 22:54h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Vygotsky 1 Comment

March 18, 2009 Is anyone else aware of Konrad Glogowski's blog— which I found today as a news item in the daily ASCD SmartBrief that comes in my inbox everyday? I'm glad I found it — it's intelligent and conversational. There's an extensive and thoughtful piece on Teachers Without Borders work in...

15 Feb New Vygotsky Documentary Features Cole, Kravtsova, Vygodskaya, Wertsch (and Holzman)

Posted at 01:22h in Activity Theory, Culture, Politics, Psychology, Vygotsky 5 Comments

February 15, 2009 I am happy to report that a new documentary film, Lev Vygotsky: One Man's Legacy through his Life and Theory, is being released this month. The filmmaker is Valerie Lowe who, in addition to making films, is an adult educator, corporate consultant and staff trainer in British Columbia — and...