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Category Archives: Education
Vygotskians CHAT @ AERA Professional Development Course
Institute director of pedagogy and Rutgers University faculty Carrie Lobman co-led a professional development and training course entitled, Cultural Historical Activity Theory Methodologies in the 21st Century: The Intersections of Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco. Lobman is co-Program … Continue reading
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Tagged American Educational Research Association, Carrie Lobman, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, Elena Bodrova, Emily Duvall, Jim Martinez, Lev Vygotsky, Lois Holzman, Michael Cole, Natalia Gajdamaschko, Tatiana Akhutina
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Fulani, Holzman address subjective side of poverty @ AERA
Nearly 15,000 educational researchers gathered in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association to grapple with issues of Education and Poverty (the conference theme). A highlight of the meeting was a special presidential session organized and … Continue reading
Jennifer Bullock and Murray Dabby: Teaching “Good Therapists” to Be Better
Atlanta Center for Social Therapy director Murray Dabby and Philadelphia Social Therapy Group director Jennifer Bullock teamed up to lead a national web-conference with about 80 clinicians — all members of the GoodTherapy.org network. Entitled, Why Group Therapy: Going From Fixing Problems to Creating Possibilities, the conversation … Continue reading
Carrie Lobman + Tony Perone: Play Movement Is Alive and Kicking
Carrie Lobman reports @ Improvisational Learning.org on her work at the joint meetings of The Association for the Study of Play and the International Play Association in Newark, Delaware. Teaming-up with Chicago-based improv artist and educator Tony Perone, Carrie led a session titled, Revolutions in Play: Advocacy, Research, … Continue reading
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Tagged All Stars Project, Carrie Lobman, Dance Your PhD, Hunter Heartbeat Method, International Play Association, Memory Ensemble, The Association for the Study of Play, The Miracle Projec, Tony Perone
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Holzman and Gildin to address educational innovators in Singapore
Institute director Lois Holzman and All Stars Project VP for Education Initiatives Bonny Gildin, are invited presenters at the Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference in the Republic of Singapore, June 3-5, sponsored by the National Institute of Education (NIE). Holzman and Gildin will be joined by … Continue reading
Jim Martinez brings NYIT science students to Harlem classrooms
New York Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology and Institute faculty Jim Martinez engineered an innovative educational program that brought 23 of his NYIT science and technology students to Harlem’s P.S. 241. His students provided professional development for the Harlem … Continue reading
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Tagged Jim Martinez, New York Institute of Technology, PS241, research, science, STEM
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Rutgers Partners with All Stars Project to Advance Developmental Afterschool
Rutgers Graduate School of Education (GSE) announced Friday a partnership with the All Stars Project, Inc. to develop initiatives dedicated to afterschool programming. For 30 years, All Stars has opened afterschool developmental programs for youth living in urban areas across … Continue reading
Lenora Fulani: Communities coming to learn, “we’re poor”
Institute faculty, All Stars Project co-founder and UX dean, Dr. Lenora B. Fulani led a special forum on Growing Up Poor: Breakthroughs in Confronting the Subjective Side of Poverty. Fulani’s presentation touched on DuBois’ concept of the “color line” and introduced her … Continue reading
Chris Reyman and Sandra Paola Lopez are in2 improv
International Class members and artists/educators Chris Reyman and Sandra Paola López are the creators of in2 improv, a creative arts/community building project which draws heavily on music, movement and dance to help participants discover their social connectedness. Says Reyman: We think of ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Reyman, in2, in2 improv, performing the world, Sandra Paola Lopez
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Lobman at All Stars Project’s Afterschool conference
Faculty Carrie Lobman reports on the smashing success of the inaugural Afterschool Growth! conference in Chicago on her blog Improvisational Learning. READ MORE Co-sponsored by the All Stars Project of Chicago and the newly formed Institute for the Study of Play, the conference brought together 125+ educators, researchers … Continue reading
International Class graduates complete ‘developmental’ course of study
Faculty and graduates of the Institute’s 2011-2012 International Class gathered in New York City for a graduation ceremony to mark the completion of their 10-month course of study. Pictured above (back row l. to r.) Christine Helm, Andrew Burton, Kim … Continue reading
Students at St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf perform “Annie”
Carrie Lobman at ImprovisationalLearning.org reports on a youth theatre performance that she attended at the invitation of colleague Anne Alexis at St Francis de Sales School for the Deaf. Anne has studied social therapeutics for years and has creatively incorporated a performance orientation … Continue reading
Mary Fridley and Marian Rich perform how laughing matters
Marian Rich and Mary Fridley’s workshop this past weekend, Laughing Matters: A Playful/Philosophical Approach to Creating Humor, drew 25 people interested in learning to create environments to bring more humor, laughter and lightness into their lives. (No small feat!) “We … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and play, Education, improvisation, performance, Uncategorized
Tagged marian rich, Mary Fridley
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Lobman and Lowenheim Lead Symposium on Teaching Adults
Faculty Carrie Lobman, Ed.D., and Gwen Lowenheim led a symposium on Teaching Adults, attended by adult educators who teach in universities, community based organizations, language schools, hospitals and corporate education programs. Workshop participants performed as both learners and teachers in the course of … Continue reading
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Tagged A, Adult Education, Carrie Lobman, Gwen Lowenheim, Teaching Adults
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Holzman and Friedman Head to Scandinavia
Lois Holzman will travel to Denmark and Sweden this week to lead a series of workshops and talks organized by colleagues in the Performing the World Community. In Copenhagen, psychologist Esben Wilstrup, a 2009 graduate of the Institute’s International Class, has … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lois Holzman, performance, Psychology, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged Castillo Theatre, Children and Youth Administration of The City of Copenhagen, Dan Friedman, Esben Wilstrup, International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, Kerstin Gauffin, Kerstin Gauffin-Holmberg, Mälardalen University
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How do we build the tallest tower in Ciudad Juárez?
Jorge Burciaga-Montoya, a recent graduate of the Institute’s Social Therapeutics Online Certificate Program, reports on how he’s been using playful games in his course in Networks and Community Systems at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez as part of creating a more collaborative, open learning environment. Jorge … Continue reading
Holzman screens favorite TED Talks at UX
Everybody wanted to talk about learning environments — and how to build good ones! Thirty-five UX students from neighborhoods across NYC joined UX Global Outreach Chair Lois Holzman for a screening of one of her favorite TED Talks by educator Sugata Mitra, entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lois Holzman, Uncategorized
Tagged All Stars Project, Lois Holzman, Sugata Mitra, TED Talks, The Child-Driven Education, UX
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Scientists test the waters on improv and performance
Biologist, performance enthusiast and International Class alumna Raquell Holmes, hosted a conference at UConn Health Center at Farmington, CT, on Performance Science Education: Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research. The multi-disciplianary happening was attended by 40 educators and grad students from the STEM … Continue reading
Catherine Hanna leads Ugandan teacher delegation to US
Performance artist and educator Catherine Hanna, who is also a facilitator with Invisible Children’s Teacher Exchange Program led a delegation of Ugandan teachers in a month-long visit to the US. After several days of orientation in NYC, the delegation traveled … Continue reading
Denver’s Face Project: Young people performing their lives
The Ethnography of a Suicide. Maddy’s a Mess. These are titles of teen dramas appearing on Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr and Twitter, as well as via live performance in malls, skateboard parks, cineplexes (and other places that teens congregate) across Denver, Colorado. Created … Continue reading
Miguel Cortés to lead Revolutionary Conversation en Español
Beginning in March, the Institute will offer its first Revolutionary Conversation en Español. Led by youth worker, family therapist, and teacher educator, Miguel Eduardo Cortés Vázquez the five-week online conversation — Terapia Social en Latinoamérica – will introduce participants to how social therapeutics is being used in communities … Continue reading
Lobman chronicles year of revolutionary conversations…
Carrie Lobman’s latest post on ImprovisationalLearning.org looks back on a year brimming with Revolutionary Conversation and offers highlights from some of the 28 formal classes and workshops the Institute produced in 2011 (among them, ”Breakthroughs in Youth Development” with Lenora Fulani, Pam Lewis and … Continue reading
STEM to STEAM: Educators consider value of arts
Education Week reports in the Dec. 7 edition that some educational experts have renewed the call for adding the arts to the STEM curriculum…. STEM—shorthand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—has quickly taken hold in education policy circles, but some experts … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, STEM
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Holzman hosts Boys’ Towns of Italy delegation at UX
Lois Holzman, chair of Global Outreach Department at UX (the All Stars Project’s university-style development program), welcomed Dr. Porfirio Grazioli, President of the Rome-based Boys’ Towns of Italy, alumni Francesco Bassano and Carol Marcoccia, and U.S. Executive Director Carrie Sackett, on Saturday, Dec. … Continue reading
Institute welcomes Jackie Salit for a conversation on democracy and development
The Institute’s Lois Holzman, Christine LaCerva and Rafael Mendez welcome Independent Voting’s chief political strategist, Jacqueline Salit, for a conversation “from the fringe” on politics, culture, emotionality and development. Salit is the author of the upcoming, Independents Rising. Entitled, Independent Minded: … Continue reading
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Tagged christine lacerva, Jacqueline Salit, Lois Holzman, Rafael Mendez
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Moscow colleagues to present on children’s dialectical thinking
In December, the Institute will host two visiting scholars — Igor and Olga Shiyan, who will present on their research on children’s dialectical thinking—and contemporary Vygotskian-inspired work in the US and Russia. They will be in the US to complete a 15-year … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Psychology, Uncategorized, Vygotsky
Tagged 10th International Vygotsky conference, Igor Shiyan, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow State University in Humanities, Olga Shiyan, Russian State University in Humanities, University of Central Arkansas, Vygotsky Institute of Psychology
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Peter Nsubuga Inspires Donors at Fall Ctty Meeting and Fundraiser
International Class alumnus and Hope for Youth Uganda founder Peter Nsubuga joined director Lois Holzman and All Stars Project co-founder and UX dean Lenora Fulani as a special guest presenter at the Institute’s fall community meeting and fundraiser on Sunday, November 13. (Fulani, who is also … Continue reading
Lois Holzman, Fred Newman and the Practice of Method (in China)
Lois Holzman returned from China, after speaking at the Third International Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies in Hangzhou and conducting a postgraduate seminar at Nanjing University with students in the Dept. of Philosophy and Center for Studies of Marxist Social … Continue reading
Autistic and in the World
Carrie Lobman comments on Improvisational Learning.org on Sunday’s New York Times feature, Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World , which tells the story of Justin Canha, a young artist diagnosed with autism at age three, who was helped to find his … Continue reading
Gildin to present at Montclair State Univ. on innovative models in after-school
The All Stars Project’s VP for Education Initiatives, Bonny Gildin, is in the third week of a new 14-week course she’s teaching at Montclair State University called ”Innovations in After School Learning Environments.” On October 26, she will present to students at a conference … Continue reading
Nov. 20th deadline for online program in social therapeutics
Applications for the 20-week, Social Therapeutics Online Certificate Program led by ESI faculty, Lois Holzman, Carrie Lobman and Christine Helm, are being accepted through November 20th. Find out more here. “Among the topics….human development and group creativity; the enhancement … Continue reading
Posted in Carrie Lobman, Education, Lois Holzman, Social Therapy, Vygotsky
Tagged Karl Marx, Lev Vygotsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein, social therapeutics
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This is your brain on ‘summer’ / This is your brain on ‘play!’
Carrie Lobman posts a response to a recent New York Times oped — This is Your Brain on Summer, authored by Jeff Smink of the National Summer Learning Association, who bemoans the learning loss of elementary school students over summer vacation. An advocate … Continue reading
Imagination Summit at Lincoln Center: Big Thinking for America
Teacher educator and play and improvisation advocate, Carrie Lobman, attended America’s Imagination Summit in NYC last week, sponsored by the Lincoln Center Institute, the education wing of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Summit activity? ”Imagination conversations” that could tap the creativity and … Continue reading
Getting creative with teacher education
Carrie Lobman responds to a recent New York Times feature, Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle, July 21, 2011. The Times reports on the gap left by traditional teacher education programs: …Teachers already bypass traditional education degrees, entering classrooms with temporary licenses after … Continue reading
“A truly postmodern zone of proximal development….”
Lois Holzman blogs about the All Stars Project’s UX, “a free, open-to-all, university-style development center.” “This new project creates its curriculum from suggestions for courses from those who want to learn and ideas from those who want to teach something…” See UX schedule … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and play, Education, Lois Holzman, Uncategorized
Tagged All Stars Project, Fernanda Liberali, Lois Holzman, UX
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Alumni ‘perform the world’ in Novi Sad, Dhaka, Taipei, Lagos, Kolkata, rural Uganda and Hamilton, ON
Hot off the virtual presses, the July issue of Reports from the Field presents some of the latest developments in the work of colleagues in communities and universities across the globe. Read more here. Director Lois Holzman comments: Many who … Continue reading
Lois Holzman to screen favorite Ted Talks at UX
Dr. Lois Holzman, who chairs the UX Global Outreach Department at All Stars Project, will share with UX students some of her favorite TED Talks videos. In the first screening on Wed., July 13, she will show two talks by creativity … Continue reading
Gildin to teach “after school” at Montclair State
The All Stars Project’s VP for Education Initiatives, Bonny Gildin, is preparing for a new 14-week course she will be teaching at Montclair State University this fall in the Department of Family and Child Studies called ”Innovations in After School Learning Environments.”
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Tagged after school, All Stars Project, Bonny Gildin, innovative education, Montclair State
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Institute to Host Innovative Brazilian Educators
Brazilian educator and reformer Dr. Fernanda Coelho Liberali and colleagues will visit NYC July 4-9, 2011. Dr. Liberali is a professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo. For the past decade, along with her colleague … Continue reading
Lois Holzman to keynote at Experiential Education conference in November
Institute director Lois Holzman will be a keynote presenter at the 39th annual international conference of the Association for Experiential Education, Nov 3-6, in Jacksonville, Florida.
