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Learning Environments

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...

22 Apr Creating Curiousity

Posted at 02:18h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 21, 2011 Here’s some advice. When you’re feeling hopeless about human beings ever learning/deciding to live together peacefully on this planet, watch a TED talk. When you’re feeling alone in your work to make a better world, watch a TED talk. When you’re bored with the same old same old,...

21 Apr An Educational Innovation in Uganda

Posted at 01:31h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 20, 2011 One evening while studying in England, a young Ugandan man named Peter Nsubuga watched a BBC documentary in the home he was staying. The program was “Children of Africa.” Peter was no stranger to the scenes he watched, having grown up in the very conditions shown on the...

05 Apr Making the Familiar Strange

Posted at 14:56h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 5, 2011 I just spent two weeks with a community activist who organizes self-help groups for women in rural India, two courageous Pakistani women educators, an American cell biologist who leads improv workshops for scientists, two youth workers from Serbia, and two university-based teacher educators also from Serbia. The Institute’...

04 Apr Educating the Educational Researchers

Posted at 17:55h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments

April 4, 2011 At the end of the week I travel to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a huge gathering (probably 14,000!) of mostly PhDs and graduate students involved in studying teaching and learning. Over five days, there will be many hundreds of...

03 Mar A Global Learning Community

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

31 Jan Fulani and Newman on America’s Education Crisis

Posted at 00:34h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

January 30, 2011 “Here is an idea for solving the education crisis in America. What if all the kids currently failing in school pretended to be good learners? What if all the adults – teachers, principals, administrators, parents – played along and pretended that the kids were school achievers, heading for...

26 Jan Glimpses of Developmental Activity

Posted at 18:59h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development 2 Comments

January 26, 2011 A young friend of mine, Francelli Chapman, keeps a very active blog that I’m learning a lot from. An example: This great quote from Maya Angelou’s book, Letter to My Daughter—“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.” Francelli calls her blog, “The...

23 Jan People Forget How to Learn Because They Don’t Know How to Play

Posted at 19:39h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Youth Development 3 Comments

January 23, 2011 As a practitioner of and theoretician on how play and performance are essential for development across the life span, I see people developing and transforming through their ensemble activities all the time—in the spaces and places where they’re invited and encouraged to actively create their performances of themselves....

20 Jan Imaginative Play and Computer Technology: Friends or Foes?

Posted at 19:24h in Activity Theory, Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

January 20, 2011 Here’s another blog I recommend: Jim’s Tech Class. The Online Home of Collaboration 3.0. Jim is Jaime (Jim) Martinez, PhD in Urban Education, former corporate computer techie and computer public school teacher, an innovator who understands how kids learn. I like his blog for his commentary on educational...