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Vygotsky

10 Oct

Posted at 16:11h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Youth Development

I'm looking for people interested in exploring the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming.   Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method: An Advanced Online Course with Lois Holzman and Faculty February — May 2016 Social therapeutics is a “practice of method” for human and community development. What Lois Holzman and Fred...

11 Sep

Posted at 03:34h in Activity Theory, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein

We’ve revamped the popular in-depth online course in social therapeutics: SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS & THE PRACTICE OF METHOD January 2016 begins the 7th year I’ve been leading the East Side Institute’s online certificate program in social therapeutics. In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to...

20 Aug

Posted at 21:51h in I Like This, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder

This post begins what I will try to make a weekly feature—a sharing of quotes that inspire me think/see/feel/relate in some (new) ways. Here's one I return to over and over again. "A psychology with a natural science method contains an insoluble contradiction.  It is a natural science about unnatural things [and produces]...

15 May

Posted at 18:55h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Youth Development

For this year's Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association in Chicago, I organized a symposium to bring Vygotsky's relevance to bear on the conference theme of "social justice." It worked! Those who attended the symposium—which I titled Vygotsky and Social Justice: Community Education and Community Development"—told me how...

25 Mar

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky

I'm honored to be receiving an award at the upcoming American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. It's really an award for everyone in the growing international development community. I'll post my talk at the end of April, so check back next month. ...

10 Nov

Posted at 12:17h in Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein

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...

13 Aug

Posted at 01:33h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

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...