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Psychology of Becoming

24 Jun Why languaging makes us special (for each other)

Posted at 16:27h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 1 Comment

June 24, 2011 I had the pleasure of hosting Stephen Cowley, a philosophopically-inclined developmental psychology professor from England, last evening at the East Side Institute. Stephen was in NYC for a conference on “biosemiotics” at Rockefeller University and enthusiastically accepted my offer to visit and have a more informal setting for...

21 Jun Wittgenstein and Therapy and the Masses

Posted at 19:15h in Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

June 21, 2011 Fred Newman and I have written quite a bit about the specific ways that Ludwig Wittgenstein has influenced the social therapeutic practice and our understanding and articulation of the practice. As I teach a course/lead a conversation, “The Thought Leadership of Fred Newman,” these past three weeks (as...

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...

04 Jun Psychology and Revolution

Posted at 02:21h in Culture, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy 1 Comment

June 3, 2011 This coming Monday I'll begin teaching a short course on "The Thought Leadership of Fred Newman." Each week, I'll choose an article or two of Fred's or Fred's and mine to present and discuss with participants. I'm hoping this will jump start my work on a new book, which...

31 May Bangladesh Welcomes Holzman and Lobman

Posted at 01:39h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Theatre, Vygotsky 7 Comments

May 31, 2011 May is one of my favorite months of the year, with light lasting into the evening hours, baby green tree buds turning into adult green leaves, and bursts of color (both flowers and people’s clothing) dotting the city streets. But this year I spent the middle of the...

27 Apr Out of Our Heads

Posted at 18:10h in Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

April 27, 2011 I loved Alva Noe's Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness. I read it last summer out at Montauk, the ocean beach town I also love (in a similar way—both are inspiring and demand respect). It was a...

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...