Lois Holzman |

05 Oct Systemic, Social Constructionist and Social Therapeutic Approaches Meet in London

Posted at 20:38h in Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

October 5, 2009 I just got back from six days in London where the highlight of my trip was leading a two-day training workshop for therapists and counselors at the KCC Foundation in London—entitled: Learning to Play the Philosophy Game: A Workshop on How Social Therapy is Done. KCC is a...

17 Sep Performing Psychology in Denmark

Posted at 19:21h in Activity Theory, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

September 17, 2009 Esben Wilstrup—self-described Danish roleplayer, postgraduate psychology student, and playful activist— and former student and very much current friend and colleague has just launched a blog. He calls it Performing Psychology. Check it out and talk to Esben!...

16 Sep Creativity and Zones of Proximal Development

Posted at 17:15h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments

September 16, 2009 Quite a few readers have asked to read the entire chapter I quoted from in my post, Could Developmental After School Eliminate the Need for Remediation? So I've just added it to articles/chapters/talks (above). The title of the chapter is Without Creating ZPDs There is no Creativity...

19 Aug Reviews for Vygotsky at Work and Play

Posted at 20:08h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Reviews, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 0 Comments

August 19, 2009 Popular books, especially if they relate to current events, get reviewed as soon as they are published—and sometimes before. Not so academic books. Alas, it's typically a year before a review appears in print. So I was pleasantly surprised today to find an email in my inbox from...

09 Aug Sonia Sotomayor and the All Stars

Posted at 15:21h in Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Youth Development 0 Comments

About 100 young people watched the swearing in of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court judge at the All Stars Project's headquarters on 42 St. Sotomayor is a friend of the All Stars and has "mentored" young people in one of its programs, the Development School for Youth. Lots of press...

20 Jul Could Developmental After School Eliminate the Need for Remediation?

Posted at 23:18h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School 0 Comments

In the extreme, schooling transforms not knowing into a deficit; creative imitation into individualized accomplishments, rote learning and testing; and completion into correction and competition. This is the current situation. This is what schools do and don’t do. I...