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Psychology of Becoming

11 Aug The Blessing and the Wound

Posted at 01:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

August 10, 2010 I know hundreds of performers-social change workers (and know of hundreds more). But I'd not heard of Hector Aristizabal until Amazon sent me an email (just for me of course!) recommending his book written with Diane Lefer, entitled, The Blessing and the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism,...

17 Jul Can Performance Change the World?

Posted at 20:21h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Youth Development 0 Comments

July 17, 2010 Participate in discovering/creating responses to this question by attending the sixth Performing the World conference: Performing the World 2010, September 30-October 3, 2010, New York City (hosted by All Stars Project, Inc and East Side Institute for Group and short Term Psychotherapy) “Can Performance Change the World?” Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers,...

16 Jul Critical Psychology on Street Corners

Posted at 20:20h in Community Organizing, Culture, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

July 16, 2010 I'm beginning to write a chapter on the state of Critical Psychology for a Chinese journal and I've spent a few hours flipping through writings, both mine and colleagues of mine. It's part of how I create an environment for having a new thought, for allowing others (including...

16 Jul Gita Vygodskaya

Posted at 13:55h in Activity Theory, Education, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 6 Comments

July 15, 2010 Gita Vygodskaya (Lev Vygotsky's daughter) died on July 13. She was in her mid-80s. I and so many Vygotskians around the world will miss her wonderful stories, her warmth and sparkle, and the joy she took in meeting people the world over whose work was inspired by her...

05 Jun Social Therapeutics in a South African Prison

Posted at 17:49h in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 2 Comments

June 5, 2010 "As progressives we have come to believe that if people address the issue of human development—in direct and practical ways—we might indeed change the world." So reads the title page of a booklet the East Side Institute put out several years ago on our history, philosophy and programs. I...

02 Jun Philosophy, Pathology and the Oil Spill

Posted at 16:45h in Culture, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

June 2, 2010 "It’s a profound and systemic problem of our entire culture. We live in a broad international culture where people can’t accept that there is no answer. They have to have an answer for everything." Fred Newman and Jackie Salit have a conversation about the BP oil spill, how it's...

29 May Online Learning Environments and Social Creativity

Posted at 01:21h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 1 Comment

May 28, 2010 I "teach" online a lot and I love it. I've done a course on Social Therapeutics at Massey University (evidently in New Zealand English, though, a "course" is called a "paper") and just launched one through the Zur Institute for 6 CEUs. But the bulk of my online...

27 May Interweaving Theory and Practice/Learning in the Digital Age

Posted at 02:53h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 1 Comment

May, 2010 I don't know Michael Thomas, Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan, but I intend to. I want to thank him for the favorable and thoughtful review of Vygotsky at Work and Play that he wrote for the British Journal of Educational Technology. He says so...

17 Apr Ambassador for Development through Performance

Posted at 18:14h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development 2 Comments

April 17, 2010 Anyone who knows me and/or visits this site knows I'm an avid supporter of the All Stars Project and have been since it began some decades ago. The All Stars' program are exquisite applications of the social therapeutic approach to human development because they are uniquely suited to...

16 Apr If There is an Achievement Gap, Where is it?

Posted at 19:22h in Education, Learning Environments, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments

April 16, 2010 On April 15, my good friend and colleague Lenora Fulani delivered a brilliant statement about educational policy at the National Action Network's Annual National Convention in New York City. Dr. Fulani, a developmental psycholoigst and political activist, co-founded the All Stars Project, Inc. and its Operation Conversation: Cops...