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What’s New

05 Jan

Posted at 02:20h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Theatre, What's New

I'm proud to be series editor! This series showcases research, theory and practice linking play and performance to learning and development across the life span. Bringing the concerns of play theorists and performance practitioners together with those of educational and developmental psychologists and counsellors coincides with the increasing professional and public...

17 Dec

Posted at 22:07h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current  International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...

30 Nov

Posted at 14:44h in Education, Human Development, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, What's New

THE 2017 SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS ONLINE PROGRAM SOCIAL THERAPEUTICS: A Performatory, Practical-Critical Approach to Human and Community Development and Learning with Lois Holzman and Special Guests February-May 2017 The Institute’s 14-week in-depth study of Fred Newman's and my approach to developing people and communities will focus, in 2017, on its core concepts and their points of intersection and...

10 Sep

Posted at 17:54h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder

I love the sentiment here (from Failure: Why Science is So Successful by Stuart Firestein) You may have noticed that I have a fondness for quotes. It's not so much that I think quoting famous people gives a statement more authority or is less open to criticism. Rather, I think that just because...

02 Sep

Posted at 14:49h in Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New

I'm "honored" to be giving the keynote at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association (NCHA) Conference on October 7th. The two-day event is hosted by Lloyd International Honors College on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This year’s theme is "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning:...

16 Jul

Posted at 20:52h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development

Performing the World (PTW) is a cross-disciplinary gathering of practitioners and scholars from every continent. Participants include performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, community organizers and activists, and all others for whom performance, play and the creative/expressive arts offer a new...

14 Jul

Posted at 21:32h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, What's New

  I recently completed a draft paper summarizing and discussing the survey results for a special issue of a journal dedicated to the growing movement to develop alternatives to the current diagnostic system in psychiatry and clinical psychology. In my latest blog post appearing on Mad in America, I give a...