03 Apr Rate Your Emotional Talent
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Author: loisholzman
30 Mar Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark
"Before science had the means to explore [the unseen], we had to make do with stories that became enshrined in myth and folklore. Those stories aren’t banished as science advances; they are simply reinvented. Scientists working at the forefront of the invisible will always be confronted with gaps in knowledge,...
30 Mar Snapshots of a Developmental History
If you want to see more photos of Lev Vygotsky, you'll find maybe a dozen on line (you can do a Google search). Since I had a relationship with his daughter Gita, who has spoken personally about her father and his work, I can share some photos of her—from my...
19 Mar Rate Your “Emotional Talent”
Vygotsky tells us that “it is possible not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.” How emotionally talented are you? Take the poll. ...
15 Mar Just Released—Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology
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in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein 2 Comments
Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...
09 Mar Billboard + Humidity = Water
See what happened in when a a university, an ad agency, a serious social-economic-environmental problem, and a billboard come together. Watch the video and and read the article....
09 Mar Who Are We/Who Are We Becoming?
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in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments
Earlier this evening I completed a six-day residency period of The International Class of the East Side Institute. It was an intense period of conversation on all manner of psychological, phiosophical, political, cultural and completely mundane matters. The 9 current members of this year's hail from 5 countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands,...
07 Mar New Book Series!
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in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Publications, What's New, Youth Development 2 Comments
I'm excited to share a new project of mine. I'm series editor for a new collection of books for Palgrave Macmillan on the topic of Play, Performance, Learning and Development. Over the next three years (and maybe beyond) researchers and practitioners will have a multi-disciplinary "home" to publish their work...
28 Feb Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information
I just saw "Love and Information", the new play by the great playwright Carly Churchill. Unique in form (15 actors played 100 parts in 57 scenes that are seconds to a few minutes long), it's equally unusual in content—how our obsession with knowing and information permeates our everyday conversations and...
25 Feb The Performance Turn in Social Activism
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in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments
[caption id="attachment_2074" align="aligncenter" width="478"] New Book and Coffee Cup[/caption] I was so pleased to see this new book in the mail yesterday that I took a photo of it. Performance Studies in Motion originated in a 2010 conference at the University of Haifa: RS and PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies....