02 Sep Sugata Mitra Responds to a Skeptic
A great interview with Sugata Mitra (and a feisty RT interviewer) [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOSLMYu1ZY&feature=share[/youtube]...
Author: loisholzman
02 Sep Honor Your Playfulness
I'm "honored" to be giving the keynote at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association (NCHA) Conference on October 7th. The two-day event is hosted by Lloyd International Honors College on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This year’s theme is "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning:...
01 Sep People, Power and Performance
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The Performing the World 2016 newsletters can't help but inspire you. Each newsletter features some of the creative performance activists presenting September 23-25 at this important gathering. Check back for more newsletters over the next two weeks. ...
11 Aug The Problem with Experts
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"Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World." From the essay, A Thousand Rivers" by Carol Black. It's a wide-ranging indictment of educational and psychological research, and a passionate plea to see how children in...
06 Aug Psychological Ethics
The Ethics of Diagnosis and Alternatives to It—An Invitation for Inquiry This week the American Psychological Association holds its annual convention in Denver. I had been planning to attend and present as part of a symposium, “The Future of Diagnosis: Ethics, Social Justice, and Alternative Paradigms.” The topic I planned to...
29 Jul Words to Ponder #19
With the damp dog Curled On my lap My laptop glows An open window on the world A world I'd like to ignore For now. Because now is quiet and still Now is like a tree Singing to itself In the storm. Dan Friedman July 29, 2016 ...
23 Jul Social Therapeutics and the Self
I’m at the beginning of writing a chapter for a book a colleague of mine is putting together. As often happens with me early in the writing process, I’ve been surfing around my library of books and PDFs stored on my computer, doing some Amazon and Google Scholar searches to...
16 Jul What is PTW?
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Performing the World (PTW) is a cross-disciplinary gathering of practitioners and scholars from every continent. Participants include performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, community organizers and activists, and all others for whom performance, play and the creative/expressive arts offer a new...
14 Jul Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of Psychiatric Labeling
I recently completed a draft paper summarizing and discussing the survey results for a special issue of a journal dedicated to the growing movement to develop alternatives to the current diagnostic system in psychiatry and clinical psychology. In my latest blog post appearing on Mad in America, I give a...
11 Jul Is Mental Health Strictly Mental?
Check out a guest column by my friend and colleague Peter Smagorinsky at my Psychology Today blog, A Conceptual Revolution....