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09 May Making a Conceptual Revolution—A Conversation with Joe Glick

Posted at 16:06h in Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 0 Comments

On Friday evening, April 29, 2016 I hosted a conversation with life-span developmental and cultural psychologist Joe Glick, Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The event was part of the East Side Institute’s ongoing series, “Making a Conceptual Revolution,” at which I interview...

26 Apr Is a SOLE a ZPD? A Beginning Conversation

Posted at 16:07h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 1 Comment

I’m one of the millions of people who have learned from and been inspired by watching one or both of Sugata Mitra’s TED talks (Build a School in the Cloud, 2013; The Child-Driven Education, 2010 ). A trained physicist, Mitra is an innovative educational researcher currently located at Newcastle University...

24 Feb What is a Fulani Fellow?

Posted at 14:10h in Community Organizing, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School 0 Comments

Here's a unique and exciting opportunity—Apply to be a Fulani Fellow! This fellowship will be a rigorous introduction to and immersion in the on-the-ground ?practice, methodology, and approach to human development employed in the programs of the All Stars Project. The fellowship is designed as an opportunity for young professionals to train...

27 Jan Some Great Dialogues on Mental Health

Posted at 17:31h in Events, Human Development, I Like This, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

Eric Maisel is conducting 100+ interviews on the future of mental health and posting them on his Psychology Today blog. Each week, he's summarizing them at Mad in America. Here's week 1's summary of The Future of Mental Health Interview Series And here's links to each interview Day 1: Bonnie Burstow on feminist psychotherapy and...

20 Jan What Makes a Difference for People of “Difference”

Posted at 20:21h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky 0 Comments

It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....

03 Dec We Can Stop Playing the Blame Game

Posted at 18:11h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play 0 Comments

In The City Beat, an essay by Omar Ali, the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and interim dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina at Greensboro on the origins of the blame game and how to stop playing it! Here's an excerpt: The philosopher...

18 Sep Words to Ponder #4

Posted at 17:26h in I Like This, Language, Philosophy, What's New, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

The assumption of an internal or mental world invites alienation, loneliness, distrust, hierarchy, competition, and self-doubt; favored is a society in which people become commodities and relationships are devalued. This concept of bounded being finds its origins not within the interior of individual minds, but within co-action. It is from...

09 Jul The Diagnostic Debate

Posted at 16:03h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

I haven’t attended the American Psychological Association convention in about ten years. But I couldn’t turn down an invitation to speak on a symposium on alternatives to diagnosis. And so, I’ll be traveling to Toronto in a few weeks for this year’s convention. The session, organized by SUNY New Paltz psychology...

15 Jun Growing the World

Posted at 23:49h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes, What's New 2 Comments

Each June, I spend 2 weeks or so with an international group of innovators/activists/scholars/community organizers. They are the Institute's International Class, in NYC for the third and final residency of their 10 month program. It's a unique kind of time together—intensely active, intellectually and emotionally challenging and growthful for all, and...

05 Jun Video of the Month—What’s Developing in a World in Crisis?

Posted at 16:09h in Human Development, Look and Listen, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

What's Developing in a World in Crisis? with Jackie Salit and Lois Holzman Each month the East Side Institute chooses an audio or video recording from its storehouse of talks and workshops. Some are classics, going back to the 1990s and featuring Fred Newman's annual lectures and plays. Others are from events...