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Culture

22 Apr Creating Curiousity

Posted at 02:18h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 21, 2011 Here’s some advice. When you’re feeling hopeless about human beings ever learning/deciding to live together peacefully on this planet, watch a TED talk. When you’re feeling alone in your work to make a better world, watch a TED talk. When you’re bored with the same old same old,...

21 Apr An Educational Innovation in Uganda

Posted at 01:31h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 20, 2011 One evening while studying in England, a young Ugandan man named Peter Nsubuga watched a BBC documentary in the home he was staying. The program was “Children of Africa.” Peter was no stranger to the scenes he watched, having grown up in the very conditions shown on the...

04 Apr Educating the Educational Researchers

Posted at 17:55h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments

April 4, 2011 At the end of the week I travel to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a huge gathering (probably 14,000!) of mostly PhDs and graduate students involved in studying teaching and learning. Over five days, there will be many hundreds of...

03 Mar A Global Learning Community

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

31 Jan Fulani and Newman on America’s Education Crisis

Posted at 00:34h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

January 30, 2011 “Here is an idea for solving the education crisis in America. What if all the kids currently failing in school pretended to be good learners? What if all the adults – teachers, principals, administrators, parents – played along and pretended that the kids were school achievers, heading for...

26 Jan Glimpses of Developmental Activity

Posted at 18:59h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development 2 Comments

January 26, 2011 A young friend of mine, Francelli Chapman, keeps a very active blog that I’m learning a lot from. An example: This great quote from Maya Angelou’s book, Letter to My Daughter—“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.” Francelli calls her blog, “The...

23 Jan People Forget How to Learn Because They Don’t Know How to Play

Posted at 19:39h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Youth Development 3 Comments

January 23, 2011 As a practitioner of and theoretician on how play and performance are essential for development across the life span, I see people developing and transforming through their ensemble activities all the time—in the spaces and places where they’re invited and encouraged to actively create their performances of themselves....

18 Jan A Turning Point

Posted at 18:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 2 Comments

January 18, 2011 If you need a pick-me-up today, something to inspire you, maybe this will do the trick: Ishita Sanyal is founder of the Calcutta-based grassroots mental health group, Turning Point, and an avid promoter and proselytizer on behalf of a social therapeutic approach to mental health. On a subcontinent where...

12 Jan Prison Theatre

Posted at 16:31h in Applied Theatre, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments

January 12, 2011 “We have a play to perform. We are accountable to one another. In programs that culminate with performances for prison audiences, and (especially) public audiences, there is an opportunity for prisoners to display and celebrate the culmination of their weeks or months of hard work. They can show...

05 Jan Zone of People’s Development

Posted at 21:47h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

January 5, 2011 In December I was in Serbia for the annual meeting of Zdravo da Ste, a community of a hundred or so Vygotskian-influenced educators, psychologists, social workers and artists who bring the joy of pointless performance to children and adults through workshops and ongoing programs. We spent the weekend...