Philosophy

15 Feb

Posted at 04:16h in Activity Theory, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky

February 14, 2011 In the early 1990s I edited a journal, Practice: The Magazine of Psychology and Political Economy (culture, sociology and economics were also covered and many issues included poetry and photos). No computer files exist and so any article has to be scanned if it's to be available to...

02 Jan

Posted at 22:16h in Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics

January 2, 2011 I had a busy December, highlighted by completing a draft article that will appear in a Chinese language journal and traveling to Serbia (whichI will write about in another post). The article, "Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy," will appear in the Register of Social Critical Theories, which comes out...

16 Aug

Posted at 19:37h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

August 16, 2010 My good friend Dan Friedman has written a paper I highly recommend. Entitled “Theatre for Nothing,” the paper delineates how theatre is being instrumentalized, especially in relation to social change efforts. Dan urges that politically oriented theatre activists recognize the stifling effect this is having on the potential...