01 Jul Picture to Ponder
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Psychology of Becoming
25 Jun Hope Springs…from Activity
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in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 3 Comments
“Hope springs eternal” is an English proverb that originated in an 18thcentury poem by Alexander Pope. It doesn’t, though. We have to create hope through what we do. This is the message I and many others are taking out to people we meet—from talks we give (“Creating Communities of Hope”) to...
07 Jun Going Somewhere New Together
The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
30 May The Overweight Brain — Available in June!
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in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 2 Comments
The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...
01 May What Does It Take To Be Culturally Relevant?
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in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Language, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments
I was one of four invited speakers at the Applied Linguistics Winter Conference last week, the theme of which was Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. Preparing my talk took me back to my academic roots as a researcher of early language development. It also took me back to my organizer-activist roots as...
19 Apr Being/Becoming an Activist/Scholar
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in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments
Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research This past week I participated in a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held in NYC, along with two distinguished co-presenters, Kris Guitierrez and Anna Stetsenko. A diverse group of younger scholars served as interviewers, with many in the audience...
04 Apr Critical Psychology at the Grassroots
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in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 0 Comments
Continuing the theme of my last post on how critique and action and practice are and can be related, I share the introduction to the 2010 re-issue of Fred Newman's book Let's Develop! A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth. Newman's social therapy is one of the ways psychology is being...
03 Apr The Challenge for Psychiatry, Psychology and Therapy—Bringing Critique and Action Together
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in Critical psychiatry, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Training/Classes 0 Comments
For the past few weeks I’ve been leading, with Robert Whitaker, an online conversation entitled, "Mad in America: Where do we go from here?" The course is created through an asynchronous group email and real-time Zoom calls where people share experiences, respond to readings and videos, and pose questions and responses....
07 Mar Performing Community + Seeming Ridiculous = Revolutionary Love
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in Culture, Events, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 3 Comments
My last post referenced the Consciencia Congress I was about to fly to Puebla Mexico for and this post gives a flavor of it. Seven speakers all in one (very long) day—addressing the topic of love, mostly from the perspective of the individual and how love is good for you....
01 Mar Love and Consciousness (and Activism)
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in Community Organizing, Creativity, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments
On March 3 I'll be in Puebla Mexico as a speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Consciousness and Spirituality, sponsored by the Transpersonal Instituto Universitario of Puebla. To this organization, transpersonal postulates a paradigm shift and expands existing models related to human behavior. This year's theme is "The Consciousness of...