19 Mar View the Work/Play
March 18, 2010 In January I wrote about the Youth Onstage! production of the Work/Play last month. Now there's a video excerpt for your viewing pleasure...
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13 Mar Politics and the DSM
March 13, 2010 One of my weekly treats is the arrival in my inbox of Talk Talk, excerpts from a dialogue Fred Newman and Jackie Salit have after watching the political talk shows on TV. Newman, co-founder with me of the Institute, is many other things – among them a...
12 Mar Play in China
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in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 8 Comments
March 12, 2010 I just returned from a week in China - specifically, Deyang, a city in the Sichuan province very hard hit by the 2008 earthquake (more than 17,000 people died and over 70,000 were injured; the schools in neighboring areas collapsed). I was there to train middle school teachers...
27 Feb Vygotsky at Work and Play Nominated for APA Award
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in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 11 Comments
February 26, 2010 I'm so pleased and honored that my book Vygotsky at Work and Play was nominated for the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, given by Divison 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association annually. I just posted the nomination on the Reviews page under Vygotsky at...
23 Feb Philosophizing and Clowning with Patch Adams and Fred Newman
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in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Health Care, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments
February 23, 2010 [caption id="attachment_403" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fred Newman and Patch Adams"][/caption] This past Saturday I had the privilege of hosting Patch Adams for the day between two university presentations he was giving that morning and evening. The meeting was a long time coming; Patch ("the clown who is a doctor") and I...
22 Jan Reports from the Field—Advancing Community Building through Performance
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in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 2 Comments
January 22, 2010 In 2004 I initiated a program to support grassroots social entrepreneurs and activist-scholars whose work is too new or innovative or radical to get much support. The program is called The International Class of the East Side Institute. As of today, over 50 people from five U.S. States...
15 Jan Galinsky on Play and Learning (and Performance)
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in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments
March 18,2010 Here's the link to a video of the scened from the Work/Play described below January, 15, 2010 I was delighted to see The Work/Play - the current production of Youth OnStage! (the youth theatre of the All Stars Project) - featured in a column by Ellen Galinsky in today's Huffington Post....
08 Jan Pretend You’re Normal … Having Fun is an Attitude and an Activity
January 7, 2010 I came across an interview with Ann Weimer Baumgardner – author of Pretend You're Normal: But Only When Absolutely Necessary, and described as a molecular geneticist, creative thinker, author and humorist on the IdeaConnection.com website. I hadn't heard of Baumgardner (have you?) but I liked what I read. Here's...
05 Jan Can Performance Change the World?
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in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments
January 5 2010 That's the question for the sixth Performing the World conference taking place September 30-October 3 in New York City. I'm what you could call the "chief organizer" for Performing the World (PTW) conferences and community. It's a great job because there seems to be no end to the...
29 Dec Vygotsky: With and Without Truth
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in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Popular Posts, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment
December 28, 2009 I ended 2009 with two adventures—one in Russia and the other in Serbia. Two different trips, two different countries, two different organizing milieus—connected in our collective histories with each other and with Vygotsky. I spent a week in Moscow and its surrounds, mostly at the 10th Annual Vygotsky Memorial...