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Community Organizing

01 May

Posted at 19:49h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, I Like This, Learning Environments, Look and Listen, Play

If you’ve ever taught or been a student (that's everyone, isn't it?), “Yes, and” as Teaching-Learning Methodology is a must read. It’s written by two University of North Carolina at Greensboro professors— Omar H. Ali, Dean of Lloyd International Honors College and Nadja B. Cech, Professor of Chemistry. In the article,...

06 Apr

Posted at 20:22h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes

The International Class is the signature program of the East Side Institute. I'm so proud to have taught and coached over 100 activists, educators, counselors, theatre artists and scholars over the years, and played a part in their development as leaders in a new kind of social activism. Read what one...

06 Apr

Posted at 14:34h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

I just rewatched this wonderfully intimate and informative video of a plenary session at Performing the World 2012. It begins with some talented improvisors setting the scene, so to speak, for the conversation among five performance activists—Lin-Ching Hsia from Taiwan, Christine LaCerva from NYC, Charles Rozman from France, Lenora Fulani...

02 Apr

Posted at 01:01h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

My last post, “Police and Teens, Connecting” (March 29, 2017 ) pointed to an article that appeared in The New York Times that same day. The article featured a unique kind of “connecting” of police and teens—Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, a program of the All Stars Project in partnership with the...

30 Jan

Posted at 01:53h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development

I want to introduce you to a unique activist-scholar community that played an especially important role in my development. It's the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (also known as LCHC or, simply, the Lab). Housed at the University of California San Diego since 1979, the Lab is a community of...

17 Dec

Posted at 22:07h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current  International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...

07 Dec

Posted at 20:09h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

[caption id="attachment_3254" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] National Dong-Hwa University[/caption] A few weeks after traveling to Bogotá Colombia to participate in the International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Dan Friedman (Institute faculty, artistic director of the All Stars Project's Castillo Theatre and associate dean of All Stars'  UX) and I were on our way to...