05 Jul Words to Ponder #33
At certain points in history, the paradigm that generated so much information comes to function as a hindrance to the use of that information. Fred Newman...
Author: loisholzman
01 Jul Picture to Ponder
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25 Jun Hope Springs…from Activity
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in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 3 Comments
“Hope springs eternal” is an English proverb that originated in an 18thcentury poem by Alexander Pope. It doesn’t, though. We have to create hope through what we do. This is the message I and many others are taking out to people we meet—from talks we give (“Creating Communities of Hope”) to...
07 Jun Going Somewhere New Together
The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
31 May New Appointment! Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance
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in Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Training/Classes, Vygotsky 1 Comment
Lloyd International Honors College Julius I. Foust Building, Suite 205 Greensboro, NC 27412 May 15, 2018 Dear Dr. Holzman, Congratulations! This letter is to confirm that you have been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance in Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a...
30 May The Overweight Brain — Available in June!
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in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 2 Comments
The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...
15 May
Posted at 19:35h
in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes 0 Comments
With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...
01 May What Does It Take To Be Culturally Relevant?
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in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Language, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments
I was one of four invited speakers at the Applied Linguistics Winter Conference last week, the theme of which was Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Preparing my talk took me back to my academic roots as a researcher of early language development. It also took me back to my organizer-activist roots as...
19 Apr Being/Becoming an Activist/Scholar
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in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments
Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research This past week I participated in a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held in NYC, along with two distinguished co-presenters, Kris Guitierrez and Anna Stetsenko. A diverse group of younger scholars served as interviewers, with many in the audience...
07 Apr Dementia: The Joy of Living an Improvisational Life
When adults, especially those with cognitive limitations, “babble,” it can be very difficult to see or hear them as offers to create with. Mostly, their sounds get interpreted (“Mom is crying, so she must mean she is in pain”), or reacted to with anger, frustration and/or great sadness. Rarely are...