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Psychology of Becoming

31 Jan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

18 Jan

Posted at 18:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

January 18, 2011 If you need a pick-me-up today, something to inspire you, maybe this will do the trick: Ishita Sanyal is founder of the Calcutta-based grassroots mental health group, Turning Point, and an avid promoter and proselytizer on behalf of a social therapeutic approach to mental health. On a subcontinent where...

05 Jan

Posted at 21:47h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

January 5, 2011 In December I was in Serbia for the annual meeting of  Zdravo da Ste, a community of a hundred or so Vygotskian-influenced educators, psychologists, social workers and artists who bring the joy of pointless performance to children and adults through workshops and ongoing programs. We spent the weekend...

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...

28 Nov

Posted at 00:36h in Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

November 29, 2010 A wonderful and important performance project is one being carried out by my friends at Performance of a Lifetime and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Dubbed the Performance of Resiliency, the project began in 2008 and involves the entire oncology nursing department in developing their ability...

23 Nov

Posted at 03:59h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

[caption id="attachment_785" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Celcilia Magalhães, Lois Holzman, Carrie Lobman, Fernanda Liberali"][/caption] November 22, 2010 With friend and colleague Carrie Lobman, I just returned from a ten-day trip to Brazil as the guests of two wonderfully talented educator/researchers—Fernanda Liberali and Maria Cecilia Magalhães from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Carrie...