Professor Jackie Marsh of the University of Sheffield is offering a seven week online course entitled, Exploring Play: The Importance of Play in Everyday Life, beginning September 29. It sounds like fun. And it's free! ...
Coverage in the New York Amsterdam News (August 28, 2014) of Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids, the amazing project of the All Stars Project, started by my dear friend and colleague Lenora Fulani. ...
"The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders" by Peter Gray TEDxNavesink is a TED Editor's Pick this week. Peter and I are both fans of the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA. We both wrote about the school in the 90s (my book, Schools for Growth). We're also both...
Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...
Piano stairs at the metro station show walking can be fun. Check out Fun Theory. 13,000 folks already have. ...
I'm really pleased to share TEDxNavesink PLAY, which took place on May 10th at Two River Theatre in Red Bank NJ. You can watch the terrific videos of the talks and entertainment (talks grouped under Possibility, Pleasure, Progress, and Paradox; you can find mine under Possibility). ...
You might be surprsied to know that play is a children's right according to the UN. Here's a video to promote and advocate for its realization around the globe. This is Me: Article 31 and a Child's Right to Play (narrated by CUNY Graduate Center's Roger Hart) My question—what about the rest...
The East Side Institute has a newly designed website—easier to navigate, update and interact with. Check it out! ...
I spent the weekend with nine terrific people discovering and creating development. The occasion was the spring Discover Development-NYC, a twice-a-year three day adventure that I have the privilege of leading thanks to the East Side Institute. People come together and immerse themselves in developmental activities of the Institute, the...
May 19, 2014 Along with comment sections of each chapter, The Overwight Brain Reader Polls give you a chance to participate in the activity of creating this book. They also give me some idea of who you—the readers—are and what you think. I deeply appreciate your participation! By far the most popular...