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Creativity

04 Oct Vygotsky’s “Head Taller” Metaphor for Play

Posted at 19:44h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development 4 Comments

October 4, 2012 In my work as a developmentalist, I am an advocate of, doer of, and studier of play. I grapple with both implementing and understanding what Lev Vygotsky said: “In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior; in play it is as though...

03 Oct Performing the World 2012

Posted at 17:47h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Youth Development 0 Comments

October 3, 2012 Here's a more graphic rendition of the Performing the World invitation and call for proposals. ...

02 Oct Can Performance Save the World?

Posted at 18:01h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, Youth Development 4 Comments

October 2, 2011 I'm thrilled to announce the next Performing the World (PTW) conference/festival, "Can Performance Change Save the World?" to take place in New York City October 4-7, 2012. Proposals are due March 1, 2012. The theme of the last PTW, held in 2010 and attended by over 500 people from dozens...

30 Aug Newman’s Grassroots Critical Psychology Movement

Posted at 02:45h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 4 Comments

August 29, 2011 I'm on a working vacation at the beautiful ocean community of Montauk, at the very tip of Long Island. Today, after the preparations for and actuality of Hurrican Irene (which was not too bad out here), I got to some reading. One book is Rom Harre's Pavlov's Dogs...

07 Aug Social Construction: Re-Opening the Conversation, Re-Constituting the Possibilities

Posted at 02:33h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Language, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

August 6, 2012 If you have an idea for an article to submit, let me know. I'm on the editorial board...

21 Jul What is UX and What Does It Do?

Posted at 15:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 1 Comment

July 20, 2011 I've written before about the All Stars Project's unique and fabulous UX, a free, open-to-all, university-style development center, but it's worth mentioning over and over. This new project creates its curriculum from suggestions for courses from those who want to learn and ideas from those who want to...

24 Jun Why languaging makes us special (for each other)

Posted at 16:27h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment

June 24, 2011 I had the pleasure of hosting Stephen Cowley, a philosophopically-inclined developmental psychology professor from England, last evening at the East Side Institute. Stephen was in NYC for a conference on “biosemiotics” at Rockefeller University and enthusiastically accepted my offer to visit and have a more informal setting for...

11 Jun What’s the Big Deal with Definition?

Posted at 23:21h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

June 11, 2011 At the East Side Institute we’ve conducted online courses for almost ten years now. They’re not conventional, didactic courses but rather exercises in creating conversation and a conversational relationship while simultaneously playing with concepts. Sometimes these courses work beautifully and sometimes they work less well. My colleague Gwen...