Author: loisholzman

19 Feb

Posted at 00:39h in Creativity, Language, Philosophy

Today’s ponderings come from Winnie the Pooh, who I’m finding remarkably relevant to living/becoming/developing in this strange and scary 21st century. So philosophical! So Vygotskian! So post-postmodern!  (Thank you, A.A.Milne for your creation.)   “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that...

18 Jan

Posted at 19:30h in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

That's the title of an invited address I gave in 2011 at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies in Hangzhou China, just three months after Fred Newman passed away. Today, my colleagues and I are in the early stages of designing some kind of video documentary of...

11 Jan

Posted at 20:39h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

I’ve been series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development since 2016. It’s been a great opportunity to support the publication of books that link play and performance to community development and learning and development across the life span—and to get to know the creative researchers...