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18 Dec Words to Ponder # 12

Posted at 14:03h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Play, What's New, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

Brian Sutton-Smith was a pioneer in researching the intellectual, social and cultural history of play. He passed away this past March at the age of 90. World renowned for the thoroughness of his scholarly writings, he is also very quotable. Here's one of his most famous: The opposite of play is not a present...

11 Dec Performance and Power

Posted at 19:12h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PROPOSALS September 23-25, 2016 Deadline for Proposals: February 21, 2016 The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which...

11 Dec Vygotsky in Practice

Posted at 17:44h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Interviews, Learning Environments, Look and Listen, Philosophy, Play, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

You might enjoy this conversation between Fred Newman and me from 18 years ago! We're looking at the various Vygotskian inspired projects we and our community created and if and how they're "Vygotskian." It was fascinating seeing them in their earlier years (once I got over the shock of seeing a much...

05 Dec Words to Ponder #11

Posted at 16:52h in Education, I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

"It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing...

10 Nov Words to Ponder #10

Posted at 20:05h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 2 Comments

"Poverty is not a personal characteristic. It is social, it is political, it is one of the ways the world is organized, and it has a history. Radically accepting the poverty of one’s own life and community while simultaneously depersonalizing it makes possible a certain kind of growth/development—especially if one...

30 Oct Words to Ponder #9

Posted at 01:30h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

"No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child." Maria Montessori ...

24 Oct Words to Ponder #8

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

This week's words are from Fred Newman's and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem. To reshape our emotional practice— to decide for ourselves what it is we want to do with anger, joy, humiliation and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity (which is nameless) and with the emotions newly created through/in the activity of building community that redefines...

16 Oct Why I Love Castillo

Posted at 21:00h in Culture, I Like This, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre, housed in the NYC headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd St, is a special place. It's my favorite theatre. In my inbox today was an email from Castillo's artistic director Dan Friedman. It personally and eloquently gives expression to Castillo's values and aesthetics.—and I share...

14 Oct Words to Ponder #7

Posted at 19:40h in Culture, I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 4 Comments

"Some people would say that we need a ground from which to act. We need a shared collective ground for collective action. I think we need to pursue the moments of degrounding, when we're standing in two different places at once; or we don't know exactly where we're standing; or...

04 Oct Words to Ponder #6

Posted at 23:00h in Creativity, I Like This, Language, Philosophy, What's New, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

This week's words are from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass—a very playful practical-philosopical book containing hundreds of thinking/speaking muddles. Here's two of them. I. White Queen: Let's consider your age to begin with—how old are you? Alice: I'm seven and a half exactly. White Queen: You needn't say "exactually: I can believe it without that....