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Youth Development

21 Jul

Posted at 15:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

July 20, 2011 I've written before about the All Stars Project's unique and fabulous UX, a free, open-to-all, university-style development center, but it's worth mentioning over and over. This new project creates its curriculum from suggestions for courses from those who want to learn and ideas from those who want to...

11 Jul

Posted at 15:03h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development

July 11, 2011 Hundreds of messages are filling my inbox—outpourings of condolences, love and respect on the passing of Fred Newman. From all corners of the world those who studied with Fred, read one of our books, heard him speak in person or on video, or “met” him through others are...

05 Jul

Posted at 19:13h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development

July 5, 2011 I share this news with deep sadness.  My dear friend, mentor and colleague Fred Newman passed away a few minutes before July 3 turned to July 4, Independence Day in the USA. Fred was nothing if not fiercely and passionately independent culturally and politically. But not psychologically or...

04 Apr

Posted at 17:55h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

April 4, 2011 At the end of the week I travel to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a huge gathering (probably 14,000!) of mostly PhDs and graduate students involved in studying teaching and learning. Over five days, there will be many hundreds of...

03 Mar

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

31 Jan

Posted at 00:34h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development

January 30, 2011 “Here is an idea for solving the education crisis in America. What if all the kids currently failing in school pretended to be good learners? What if all the adults – teachers, principals, administrators, parents – played along and pretended that the kids were school achievers, heading for...

26 Jan

Posted at 18:59h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development

January 26, 2011 A young friend of mine, Francelli Chapman, keeps a very active blog that I’m learning a lot from. An example: This great quote from Maya Angelou’s book, Letter to My Daughter—“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.” Francelli calls her blog, “The...

23 Jan

Posted at 19:39h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Youth Development

January 23, 2011 As a practitioner of and theoretician on how play and performance are essential for development across the life span, I see people developing and transforming through their ensemble activities all the time—in the spaces and places where they’re invited and encouraged to actively create their performances of themselves....

05 Jan

Posted at 21:47h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

January 5, 2011 In December I was in Serbia for the annual meeting of  Zdravo da Ste, a community of a hundred or so Vygotskian-influenced educators, psychologists, social workers and artists who bring the joy of pointless performance to children and adults through workshops and ongoing programs. We spent the weekend...

23 Nov

Posted at 03:59h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

[caption id="attachment_785" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Celcilia Magalhães, Lois Holzman, Carrie Lobman, Fernanda Liberali"][/caption] November 22, 2010 With friend and colleague Carrie Lobman, I just returned from a ten-day trip to Brazil as the guests of two wonderfully talented educator/researchers—Fernanda Liberali and Maria Cecilia Magalhães from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Carrie...