Author: loisholzman

18 Dec Words to Ponder # 12

Posted at 14:03h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Play, What's New, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

Brian Sutton-Smith was a pioneer in researching the intellectual, social and cultural history of play. He passed away this past March at the age of 90. World renowned for the thoroughness of his scholarly writings, he is also very quotable. Here's one of his most famous: The opposite of play is not a present...

11 Dec Performance and Power

Posted at 19:12h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PROPOSALS September 23-25, 2016 Deadline for Proposals: February 21, 2016 The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which...

11 Dec Vygotsky in Practice

Posted at 17:44h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Interviews, Learning Environments, Look and Listen, Philosophy, Play, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

You might enjoy this conversation between Fred Newman and me from 18 years ago! We're looking at the various Vygotskian inspired projects we and our community created and if and how they're "Vygotskian." It was fascinating seeing them in their earlier years (once I got over the shock of seeing a much...

09 Dec Apolitical Intellectuals

Posted at 17:18h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Politics 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre of the All Stars Project is named for Otto Rene Castillo, the Guatemalan poet and revolutionary. In this video, members, staff and volunteers of the Castillo Theatre perform "Apolitical Intellectuals"—the Castillo poem that inspired them. [embed]http://https://youtu.be/XSVoNZrjI6A[/embed] ...

08 Dec Performance Reminds Us That We’re Social Beings

Posted at 19:15h in Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky 0 Comments

I’m spending December finishing writing some new chapters for my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play, due to my editor at Routledge by year’s end. It’s been challenging to immerse myself in and again create with the voice of that book. It’s only one of my writing voices, and...

05 Dec Words to Ponder #11

Posted at 16:52h in Education, I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

"It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing...

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...

30 Nov Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm

Posted at 18:24h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, I Like This 0 Comments

A new audio book by friend and colleague Eric Maisel. Print versions coming soon!...

26 Nov Giving Thanks From and To Uganda

Posted at 23:50h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 1 Comment

Today I share an email from a dear friend, Peter Nsubuga from Kampala Uganda. Peter is a graduate of the East Side Institute’s International Class 2009 whose organization, Hope for Youth-Uganda, was in its infancy then. Peter started this NGO in Central Uganda’s Mukono District to support vulnerable children with food, clothing and...