13 Jan Vygotsky at Work and Play in 2 Minutes
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05 Jan Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
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I'm proud to be series editor! This series showcases research, theory and practice linking play and performance to learning and development across the life span. Bringing the concerns of play theorists and performance practitioners together with those of educational and developmental psychologists and counsellors coincides with the increasing professional and public...
04 Jan The Subjectivity of Objectivity
I posted a new chapter of The Overweight Brain a few days ago and am so pleased with the great feedback I'm receiving so far. Here's a snippet: Science relies on and perpetuates the distinction (dualism) between subjective and objective—subjective being beliefs, attitudes, and other mental processes that are “inside,” and objective being...
17 Dec New Stages Where Vygotsky Works and Plays
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My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...
17 Dec John Shotter: Relational Becomings
Renowned scholar John Shotter passed away on December 8, 2016 after a long illness. John loved to talk and to listen, to create conversation about everything, most especially about conversation itself. His contributions to social constructionism, Open Dialogue and a radically humanistic psychology are acknowledged and studied the world over. I...
16 Dec Performing Who You Are Becoming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmPdBop5G4 Antoine Joyce, the City Leader of the All Stars Project of Dallas, recently spoke at TEDxSMU on how performance on stage and off has the power to develop and grow lives....
07 Dec Creating Communities of Hope
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[caption id="attachment_3254" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] National Dong-Hwa University[/caption] A few weeks after traveling to Bogotá Colombia to participate in the International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Dan Friedman (Institute faculty, artistic director of the All Stars Project's Castillo Theatre and associate dean of All Stars' UX) and I were on our way to...
30 Nov New Chapter Coming Before the Year Ends!
I'm returning to The Overweight Brain after a long hiatus. Chapter 7. The Cult(are) of Science will be done before New Year's Eve. Watch for it!...
30 Nov New Course: Viewing Social Therapeutics from Different Angles
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THE 2017 SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS ONLINE PROGRAM SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS: A Performatory, Practical-Critical Approach to Human and Community Development and Learning with Lois Holzman and Special Guests February-May 2017 The Institute’s 14-week in-depth study of Fred Newman's and my approach to developing people and communities will focus, in 2017, on its core concepts and their points of intersection and...
30 Nov It’s a ZPD, not a ZPL
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A colleague of mine invited me to contribute a chapter to a book he's putting together. Over the summer I completed the draft chapter, which I call Zones of Proximal Development: Mundane and Magical. I share a paragraph from the beginning pages and another from the ending pages. (You'll have...