08 Jan Words to Ponder #14
Worth remembering as we begin a new year...
Author: loisholzman
22 Dec Words to Ponder #13
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Today’s Words to Ponder are spoken by Sir Malcolm Muckerex, the pompous and erudite narrator in Fred Newman’s play, “Life Upon the Wicked Stage.” The play was first performed live at the American Psychological Association Convention in 1997; you can watch a video performance of it here. The world is a wicked...
18 Dec Words to Ponder # 12
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
"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
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
A new audio book by friend and colleague Eric Maisel. Print versions coming soon!...