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Category Archives: Vygotsky
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
Posted in Carrie Lobman, Education, Lois Holzman, Training, Uncategorized, Vygotsky
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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Now a Classic: Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist
Twenty years after its original publication, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman’s Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist will be re-published this coming August as a Routledge Psychology Press, Classic Edition. The book, which was translated into Portuguese in 2002, presents Vygotsky as a brilliant Marxist methodologist unique … Continue reading
Volker Bunzendahl: Performing Hope in an Alienated World
Read Lois Holzman’s loving obituary for longtime friend, Volker Bunzendahl… November 19, 2012 This morning I learned that a dear friend of mine passed away last week. Volker was an exuberant and passionate psychologist and human being… He will be … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and play, Lois Holzman, Uncategorized, Vygotsky
Tagged Volker Bunzendahl
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Lois Holzman travels to Japan as guest faculty
At the invitation of colleague Professor Yuji Moro, Institute director Lois Holzman will visit Japan August 24 through September 3, where she will lead the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology‘s International Workshop, deliver a keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Qualitative … Continue reading
Marxist psychologists in Mexico: Energized and disgruntled
In a recent post, Lois Holzman reports on the 2nd Marxism and Psychology Conference in Morelia, Mexico, where she presented along with colleagues Wellington de Oliveira (São Paulo) and Miguel Cortés and Jorge Burciaga (from Juárez, Mexico) on, From Critical to Practical-Critical Psychology: Activating and Developing People and Community in … Continue reading
Holzman reports on trip to Serbia — challenging hold of societal identities…
Institute director Lois Holzman reports at LoisHolzman.org on a recent visit to Serbia which included activities with colleagues old and new. As she has since 1997, Holzman attended annual meetings of Zdravo da Ste (“Hi Neighbor”) — a group of 100+ psychologists, educators, … Continue reading
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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Dr. Rafael Mendez to speak at Islamic Azad University in Iran
Social Therapy Group staff therapist, Bronx Community College and Institute faculty, Rafael Mendez, Ph.D., will be a featured speaker at the First International Congress on Child and Adolescent Psychology: Cross Cultural and Islamic Approach conference at the Islamic Azad University in … 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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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
