Lois Holzman.org- New Letter to the Developmentalist: Death. War. Sickness. Loss.
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: It’s Hard to Let Go of My Youth
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: My Voice is Not Welcome – Right or Left!
- Words to Ponder # 45
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: I’m a conflicted romantic!
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: Trying to Be Perfect Is Exhausting!
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: I’m Playing the Role of the “Villain Professor,”
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: I’m Triggered by Trigger Talk
- I don’t know why but I can tell you …
- New Letter to the Developmentalist: Help, I’m a Workaholic!
- Christine La Cerva — The Community Therapist
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Tag Archives: Carrie Lobman
Lobman in Kobe Japan at invitation of Dr. Hiroyuki Imai
An enthusiastic Performing the World 2012 participant and Institute colleague, Dr. Hiroyuki Imai (professor on the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan) was eager to make a creative match: He sought to bring together Japanese educators working in … Continue reading
Lobman keynotes education reform conference in Brazil
Institute pedagogical director Carrie Lobman was a recent keynote speaker at the International Conference on Cultural-Historical Theory and Human Development: Key Issues for School Education, at the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Marilia, Brazil, and organized by the University’s Association of … Continue reading
Developments in Ciudad Juárez
International Class alums Miguel Cortes, Jorge Burciaga and Institute colleague Mariana Soledad Loya Parra report on developments at El Centro Fred Newman Para la Terapia Social — the independent therapy and community center they’ve built over the last five years in Juárez … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, El Centro Fred Newman Para la Terapia Social, Jorge Burciaga, Jorge Burciaga-Montoya, Maria del Carmen Santos Fabela, Mariana Soledad Loya Parra, Miguel Cortés, Miguel E. Cortes Vazquez, Miguel Eduardo Cortés Vázquez, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
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Developmentalists take the stage at American Educational Research Association
Some 14,000 educators flocked to Philadelphia for meetings of the American Educational Research Association — among them several hundred Vygotskians — members of the Cultural Historical Research Special Interest Group (SIG), who staged some of the more innovative presentations under the … Continue reading
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Tagged A. J. Franklin, Armando Justo, Carrie Lobman, Ellen Scully-Russ, Emily Duvall, Jim Martinez, Karl Alexander, Lenora Fulani, Lev Vygotsky, Lois Holzman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Smagorinsky
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Lobman introduces Newman/Holzman to hundreds of educators and psychologists in Brazil
At the invitation of longtime colleagues Fernanda Liberali, Cecelia Magalhaes and MuriloMocheta, the Institute’s pedagogical director Carrie Lobman spent ten days in São Paolo and Maringa, Brazil, introducing social therapeutic methodology to 225 therapists, special education teachers, public school teachers and psychologists. Lobman’s tour is the latest … Continue reading
Conversation w Peter Smagorinsky Launches ‘Making a Conceptual Revolution’ Salon
The Institute welcomed Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor in English Education at the University of Georgia, to New York for a salon-style conversation with Institute director Lois Holzman and a diverse audience of invited guests. In introducing Smagorinsky, Holzman noted: Peter has taken … Continue reading
LaCerva and Lobman to present at ‘Psychology and the Other’
Social Therapy Group director Christine LaCerva and Institute pedagogy director and Rutgers U. associate professor Carrie Lobman will present at the third annual Psychology and the Other conference at Lesley University next month. The event is expected to draw several hundred mostly psychodynamically oriented psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, social workers, philosophers, sociologists, … Continue reading
Lobman in Vilnius, Lithuania, finds kindred (play and performance) spirits
At the invitation of faculty Milda Bredekyte and Pentti Hakkarainen, the Institute’s director of pedagogy Carrie Lobman led a week-long series of trainings on new approaches to play and performance at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute and at an off-campus educational retreat for the Productive … Continue reading
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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Ctty Meeting & Fundraiser caps spring fundraising drive
The Institute celebrated an annual rite of spring with its 6th annual Community Meeting and Fundraiser. The festive gathering — a hallmark of the Institute’s financial independence — brought together 75+ shareholders and friends along with new colleagues and supporters. The fundraising event … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, David Nackman, Jim Martinez, Kim Svoboda, Lois Holzman
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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
Posted in Carrie Lobman, creativity and play, Education, improvisation, performance, Uncategorized
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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8 Students from Japan to South Africa join a postmodern psychology play
How do you teach a postmodern psychology? Or more specifically, how do you design a seminar to engage the foundations, politics, philosophy and community-based applications of the social therapeutic approach? (Presumably, pop quizzes and multiple-choice tests are out…) Institute faculty Lois … Continue reading
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
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
Steve & Mary Alice host PTW sneak preview with Lobman and Sutherland
Blog Talk Radio hosts and play mavens, Steve Dahlberg and Mary Alice Long, Ph.D., celebrated the two-year anniversary of their show, Creativity in Play with a special “Sneak Preview” of Performing the World 2012 (PTW). The September 25 show features interviews on … Continue reading
Crazytown creator, Jude Treder-Wolff, interviews Carrie Lobman
Creative arts therapist and performance artist, Jude Treder-Wolff interviewed the Institute’s Carrie Lobman, for a column, entitled: The Radical Collaboration Made Possible Through Play, which appeared on the online news hub, Long Island Inter-personal Relationships Examiner. Treder-Wolff is the creator of the one-woman show, Crazytown, and … Continue reading
The Human Cost of Bad Science: Therapists need new tools
The Human Cost of Diagnosis forum brought together Columbia University’s Gil Eyal, the Institute’s Lois Holzman, and Social Therapy Group director Christine LaCerva at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall. The audience of 100+ therapists, educators, parents and others were treated to three ways of looking at … 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
The Miracle Project — Not Acting Normal
Carrie Lobman reports on meeting The Miracle Project… Last night I saw a funny, touching and creative piece of theater called A Brief History of All Things performed by the Miracle Project Players, a theater group made up of children and teens with autism, special … Continue reading
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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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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The Institute welcomes Johnny Blazes for some gender bending performances
The Institute welcomes performance artist Johnny Blazes for a weekend of gender bending performances on October 21 & 22. Johnny’s Friday performance/ presentation explores the visual vocabulary of gender using visual puns and performance tropes. Carrie Lobman will team up … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, gender bending, Johnny Blazes
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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
Playing around with taking pictures
Carrie Lobman and Cathy L. Stewart welcomed about a dozen participants (author included) to their photography workshop to play with how we look at the world around us. They showed us shots taken by great photographers and deconstructed what worked well. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, Cathy L. Stewart, Play and education
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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
Re-imagining New York — what would we build?
Doug Balder, Carrie Lobman and Alejandro Gonzalez asked students in their “Dreaming New York” revolutionary conversation series to do some brainstorming to re-imagine Broadway — and specifically the area radiating away from 28th Street and Broadway. What if we weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Alejandro Gonzalez, Carrie Lobman, Doug Balder
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New book — Structure & Improvisation in Creative Teaching — features Carrie Lobman & Tony Perone
A new book on creative teaching, Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching (Cambridge University Press), edited by R. Keith Sawyer, was released this month. It includes chapters by improvisation and play champions, Carrie Lobman, Ed.D., and Ph.D. candidate and Applied Improvisation Network … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, Creative Teaching, R. Keith Sawyer, Tony Perone
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Cathy Stewart focuses her lens on NYC communities
“One of my passions,” says New York County Independence Party chair, Cathy Stewart, “is photography, which gives me the opportunity to play with how I see the world. Another is the East Side Institute, where I go to enjoy playful philosophical … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrie Lobman, Cathy Stewart, Playground
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Re-imagining New York City — Balder / Lobman / Gonzalez Offer a Lesson in How to See
In a “revolutionary conversation” that began last night, Institute faculty Doug Balder and Carrie Lobman, joined by Argentine architect Alejandro Gonzalez, asked 10+ participants (designers, architects, students, web designers, et. al) to think about how we see the city. What … Continue reading
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Tagged Alejandro Gonzalez, Carrie Lobman, Doug Balder
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