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05 Jan Can Performance Change the World?

Posted at 21:54h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

January 5 2010 That's the question for the sixth Performing the World conference taking place September 30-October 3 in New York City. I'm what you could call the "chief organizer" for Performing the World (PTW) conferences and community. It's a great job because there seems to be no end to the...

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...

30 Oct Development Grows in Juárez

Posted at 22:10h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 5 Comments

October 30, 2009 These days, la Cuidad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico is pretty much known for one thing—violent crime. No denying the destruction of life and transformation of culture that’s hit this city so hard. But it is not the whole story (it never is). [caption id="attachment_321" align="alignleft" width="300"...

05 Oct Systemic, Social Constructionist and Social Therapeutic Approaches Meet in London

Posted at 20:38h in Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

October 5, 2009 I just got back from six days in London where the highlight of my trip was leading a two-day training workshop for therapists and counselors at the KCC Foundation in London—entitled: Learning to Play the Philosophy Game: A Workshop on How Social Therapy is Done. KCC is a...

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...

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...

07 Feb Conversations with a Black Minority: Fulani, Frazier, Lewis and Strickland

Posted at 08:42h in Culture, Performance Movement, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development 0 Comments

February 7, 2009 I'm excited about a new course offering of the East Side Institute, where I am privileged to be director. It's entitled, "Conversations with a Black Minority: Postmodern Marxists in Dialogue about a New and Innovative Approach to "Black" Psychology," and it will be led by four powerful African...