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26 Jan Revisitng Vygotsky, A Revolutionary Scientist

Posted at 19:34h in Activity Theory, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments

January 26, 2013 During January I’ve been writing a new introduction to Fred Newman’s and my 1993 book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist for the new “Classic Edition” Routledge’s Psychology Press will be releasing later in 2013. Part of my process has been doing a lot of searches, mostly on Google Scholar...

18 Jan Dan Pink on Cathy Salit

Posted at 23:15h in Applied Theatre, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

January 16, 2013 Best selling author Dan Pink (A Whole New Mind, Drive) has a new book, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. He devotes his Chapter 8 to the topic of Improvisation, and he had a really good teacher for this chapter, Cathy Salit. Cathy is...

10 Jan Vygotsky, Education and Revolution

Posted at 16:13h in Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment

January 10, 2013 I just received an unusual book in the mail: We Saved the Best for You—Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators. The book contains 52 letters written by scholars and practitioners. Most are in their own voices. But editors Tricia Kress and Robert Lake asked some...

04 Jan Being an Independent

Posted at 03:27h in Human Development, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

January 3, 2013 Next month I’ll be attending the National Conference of Independents being held in NYC on February 16th. It’s a gathering of hundreds of independent voters from across the US sponsored by IndependentVoting.org, a national strategy, communications and organizing center working to develop a movement of independent voters for...

29 Dec Something for a Rainy Day

Posted at 20:36h in Psychology of Becoming 1 Comment

20 Dec The Therapeutic Power of Performance

Posted at 03:02h in Applied Theatre, Culture, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development 0 Comments

December 19, 2012 “A lot rides on our capacity to be who we’re not.” So remarked Christine LaCerva, director of The Social Therapy Group and the East Side Institute’s clinical training. Christine was one of six who I assembled to address the topic, “The Therapeutic Power of Performance,” at a plenary session...

16 Dec Creativity in Interaction

Posted at 16:53h in Creativity, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

December 16, 2012 I was in Serbia last week. I crammed a lot into four days and it was well worth it. I’ve been going to Serbia once a year for more than a decade and each time I experience the joy of people supporting other people to develop and, at...

05 Dec DSM-5—Flawed or Something Much Worse?

Posted at 15:36h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 5 Comments

December 5, 2012 As Allen Francis, one of the DSM-5’s most vocal critics, writes in his recent Psychology Today column, the final approval of the “deeply flawed DSM-5” by The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association “will start a half or dozen or more new fads which will be...

20 Nov Volker Bunzendahl—Performing Hope in an Alienated World

Posted at 01:59h in Activity Theory, Education, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

November 19, 2012 This morning I learned that a dear friend of mine, Volker Bunzendahl, passed away last week. Volker was an exhuberant and passionate psychologist and human being. He moved from Germany to Denmark decades ago and made a home for himself and his family in the north of the...

03 Nov Far Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy—No Longer Forgotten Thanks to Fulani

Posted at 22:25h in Community Organizing, Health Care, Human Development, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

November 3, 2012 Far Rockaway, Queens is one of the poorest, most isolated and forgotten neghborhoods of New York City, About 60,000 people live there on the Rockaway penisula jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean. More than 80% of them are Black and Latino, and the median income is under $28.000/year. Until...