In The City Beat, an essay by Omar Ali, the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and interim dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina at Greensboro on the origins of the blame game and how to stop playing it! Here's an excerpt: The philosopher...
Theatre and Improv with and for people with an autism or Asperberger's label are getting the attention they deserve. Check out these articles from American Theatre and the Huffington Post. The Curious Incidence of Theatre on the Autism Spectrum Teens With Autism Stretch, Grow And Laugh In Improv Classes At Second City ...
March 24, 2015 article in The Independent Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system A step in the right direction...
Lois Holzman Lives What She Teaches About Play By Jamie Turner February 9, 2015 Lois Holzman doesn’t just talk about play—she lives it. From her work as Director of the East Side Institute for Group & Short Term Psychotherapy, organizer of an international movement of play and performance activists called Performing the World, her...
My week in Japan was gratifying in so many ways, most of all the experience of being a participant in the ongoing process of organizing the young generation of Japanese teacher educators and psychology researchers. (A close second was the wonderful taste and visual pleasure of every meal I was...
I've been in Japan since Thursday November 6 and I'm half way thorugh my trip. I'll be sharing a more comprehensive report once I return home. I was privileged to present a keynote adress to the Japanese Association for Educational Psychology conference in Kobe on Friday. I titled it The How...
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! ...
Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...
"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...