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Vygotsky at Work and Play Tag

22 Mar

Posted at 01:45h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics

I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...

02 Apr

Posted at 01:01h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

My last post, “Police and Teens, Connecting” (March 29, 2017 ) pointed to an article that appeared in The New York Times that same day. The article featured a unique kind of “connecting” of police and teens—Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, a program of the All Stars Project in partnership with the...

27 Oct

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

23 Mar

Posted at 17:16h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

On March 16 I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at which four Japanese colleagues presented their work. They were visiting the East Side Institute and All Stars Project to learn more, after having participated in a workshop I led months earlier in Kobe Japan. On their last day...