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Philosophy

19 Feb

Posted at 00:39h in Creativity, Language, Philosophy

Today’s ponderings come from Winnie the Pooh, who I’m finding remarkably relevant to living/becoming/developing in this strange and scary 21st century. So philosophical! So Vygotskian! So post-postmodern!  (Thank you, A.A.Milne for your creation.)   “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that...

18 Jan

Posted at 19:30h in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

That's the title of an invited address I gave in 2011 at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies in Hangzhou China, just three months after Fred Newman passed away. Today, my colleagues and I are in the early stages of designing some kind of video documentary of...

22 Jan

Posted at 02:32h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Words to Ponder

These words, written twenty years ago by renowned social constructionist Ken Gergen, are surely worth pondering today. "In important degree, identity politics is a descendent of Western, individualist ideology. It is not the single individual who commands our interest in this case; rather individual identity is conflated with group identity. Individual...

05 Jan

Posted at 01:31h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein

While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it!  (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological...

29 Dec

Posted at 23:25h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics

When I have an academic presentation to make or an article to write on social therapeutic methodology, it's usually an opportunity to play around with conceptions I've spoken and written about many times before. I like the challenge of creating new frames ("What do I want to say to this...

22 Mar

Posted at 01:45h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics

I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...