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: Lois Holzman
‘Performing the World 2014’ investigates: How shall we become?
More than 400 participants from 34 countries attended Performing the World 2014 (PTW) at the All Stars Project’s national headquarters in New York City. The biennial autumn conference, co-sponsored by the Institute and All Stars Project, Inc., brought together performance activists, educators, therapists, … Continue reading
A ‘Revolutionary Vygotsky’ takes the stage at ISCAR Summit in Sydney
The Institute’s director of pedagogy and Rutgers Univ. early childhood education faculty Carrie Lobman was among presenters at The 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research in Sydney, Australia. The conference drew some 400 scholars and researchers in the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lois Holzman, Social Therapy, The International Class, Uncategorized, Vygotsky
Tagged Ana Stetsenko, Annalie Pistourus, Cecilia Magalhaes, Fernanda Coelho Liberali, Fernando Gonzalez Rey, Fred Newman, ISCAR, Lois Holzman, Michael Cole, Mike Askew, The 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, Wellington Oliviera
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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
Holzman recipient of lifetime achievement award from AERA Cultural Historical Research SIG
The Cultural Historical Research Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association has named Lois Holzman as the recipient of its prestigious lifetime achievement award. Holzman’s award will be presented at the AERA annual meeting in Chicago, 2015, where she will deliver an … Continue reading
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
Posted in All Stars Project, Carrie Lobman, Education, Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, The International Class, Vygotsky
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
Lots to look-up in Thomas Teo’s Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology
Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as … Continue reading
Lois Holzman named series editor for Palgrave Studies on Play, Performance, Learning and Development
Institute director Lois Holzman was recently named series editor for a new collection of books — the Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development. In announcing the new series, Palgrave Macmillan describes it as “a needed home for cross-disciplinary scholarship linking play and performance … 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
Play Day! Holzman to present at TedXNavesink
Lois Holzman will be a featured speaker at the upcoming TedX Navesink in Red Bank, N.J., May 10. It’s a day-long forum featuring several dozen presentations and entertainment dedicated to exploring the power and potential of PLAY! Here’s how Lois describes her talk … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and play, improvisation, Lois Holzman, performance, Uncategorized
Tagged Lois Holzman, TedMed, TedXNavesink
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Holzman’s “The Overweight Brain” makes online debut
Lois Holzman’s latest book project — The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World — made its online debut at LoisHolzman.org with the publication of a provocative first installment. Conceived as … Continue reading
New International Class makes first visit to NYC
The Institute welcomed its 2013-2014 International Class, which gathered in New York City for a week of whirlwind activity. The smiling faces in the photo above belong to (front row, l. to r.) Jelena Aleksic (Serbia), Ksenija Milic (Serbia), Lois Holzman (ESI director, NYC), … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Lois Holzman, Social Therapy, The International Class, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged Elena Boukouvala, Helen Abel, Jelena Aleksic, Ksenija Milic, Lea Cikos, Lois Holzman, Nilton Mendes, Pauline Warinaar, Sarah Weiler, Shaheen Akter, social therapeutic, Teresa Cavanaugh
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Japan study group performs Holzman’s ‘Vygotsky at Work and Play’
This just in from our colleague in Japan — developmental psychology professor Yuji Moro at the University of Tsukuba. Dr. Moro reports that he has organized a reading group to study Lois Holzman’s 2011 text, Vygotsky at Work and Play. The … Continue reading
Community speaks-out on Psychiatric Diagnoses at Harlem Week
The Institute and Social Therapy Group were out with 12 volunteers talking to strollers at the Harlem Week street fair and conducting a community poll on people’s attitudes toward psychiatric diagnosis and labeling. Gwen Lowenheim (pictured above l. with volunteer … Continue reading
Posted in Gwen Lowenheim, Lois Holzman, Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged DSM-5, Gwen Lowenheim, Harlem Week, Lois Holzman, Vicky Archer
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Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist is a Classic (edition)
Twenty years after its debut, Fred Newman’s and Lois Holzman’s 1993 title, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist, has been published by Psychology Press as a Classic Edition — i.e., among a series of psychology texts designed to present “fundamental ideas to a new generation.” The … Continue reading
Japanese colleagues try out performance of revolutionary conversationalists
Thirteen educators, psychologists, researchers and graduate students from universities across Japan recently completed a two-month online seminar with Lois Holzman, in which they pursued the study of performatory, developmental methodology and its Vygotskian roots. Entitled, Social Therapeutics: Breaking Through Alienation and Reinitiating Development, the course … Continue reading
Inquisitive Visitors “Discover Development” in NYC
Eight new friends hailing from Georgia, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and the Netherlands spent three days in NYC as part of an immersive course of study, observation and play led by Institute director Lois Holzman (second from r., above). Dubbed Discover … 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
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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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
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
Posted in Carrie Lobman, Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, Social Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Carrie Lobman, David Nackman, Jim Martinez, Kim Svoboda, Lois Holzman
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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
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
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
Murilo Dos Santos Moscheta: Advancing an aesthetic approach to human development
Brazilian psychologist and International Class (2010) alumnus Murilo Dos Santos Moscheta recently published an article entitled, Performance and Identity: Notes for an Aesthetic/Relational Appraisal of Development, which appears in the Brazilian journal Nova Perspectiva Sistêmica (NPS), out of Rio de Janeiro. Dos Santos … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Christine LaCerva, creativity and play, Fred Newman, improvisation, Social Therapy, Training
Tagged Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, Murilo Dos Santos Moscheta, Nova Perspectiva Sistêmica, Performance and Identity: Notes for an Aesthetic Relational Appraisal of Development, The International Class, Universidade Estadual de Maringá
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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
The Therapeutic Power of Performance — watch the video
Lois Holzman blogs about The Therapeutic Power of Performance — the subject of a special plenary session at Performing the World 2012: Can Performance Change Save the World featuring Hector Aristizabal, Lenora Fulani, Artin Göncü, Lin Ching-Hsia, Christine LaCerva and Charles Rojzman. Says Holzman: I live performance and … Continue reading
Posted in Christine LaCerva, Lois Holzman, performance, Uncategorized
Tagged artin goncu, Can Performance Change/Save the World, Charles Rojzman, christine lacerva, Hector Aristizábal, Lenora Fulani, lin ching-hsia, Lois Holzman, performing the world, therapeutic power of performance
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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
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
Otto Award Winner Hector Aristizábal explores therapeutic power of performance
Lois Holzman greeted 2012 Otto Award winner Hector Aristizábal at a reception for the honorees at the Castillo Theatre (above). Aristizábal, a Colombian psychologist and founder of Los Angeles-based ImaginAction, uses performance and theatre games to help people deal with trauma. In accepting his award, he shared with the … Continue reading
Posted in Fred Newman, Lois Holzman, performance, Psychology, Social Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Ajoka Theatre, Audelco, Castillo Theatre, Grace Jones, Hector Aristizábal, ImaginAction, John O'Neal, Lois Holzman, Otto Awards, Otto René Castillo, performing the world, Sistren Theatre Collective, Urban Bush Women
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“Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice,” alternatives to medical psychiatry
Andy Lock and Tom Strong’s new book, Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice is hot off the presses. It includes a chapter by Lois Holzman and Fred Newman, Activity and performance (and their discourses) in social therapeutic method. Other featured authors include: Kenneth J. … Continue reading
Gil Eyal, Lois Holzman, Christine LaCerva to discuss human cost of diagnosis
On Friday, June 8, the Institute will host a conversation with Columbia University sociologist Gil Eyal, developmental psychologist Lois Holzman and social therapist Christine LaCerva , to address the Human Cost of Diagnosis. What are the history, politics and economics of diagnoses? Where is … Continue reading
Posted in Lois Holzman, Psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged Autism Spectrum, christine lacerva, DSM-5, Gil Eyal, Lois Holzman
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Two weeks to grieve, says DSM-5
Arizona State University professor and researcher Dr. Joanne Cacciatore challenges proposed changes to the “bereavement exclusion,” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which establishes the (normal) amount of time you’re allowed to grieve the loss of a loved … 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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Holzman: DSM Is a Hoax
Lois Holzman comes out swinging in her latest post, There’s No Science in the DSM, citing the growing controversy surrounding proposed diagnostic changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — a debate that has grabbed the attention of The New … Continue reading
Relationship by manual? (More on the DSM-5 debate…)
In a recent post on LoisHolzman.org, Lois invites a deeper dive into the current controversy surrounding DSM-5 — a swelling debate that exposes some of the underlying problems with the theory and practice of psychology…. What assumptions must people be making— about … Continue reading
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Tagged Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM-5, Lois Holzman
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Not crazy about DSM (I,II, III, IV or V)
See Lois Holzman’s latest post on the growing controversy surrounding the proposed 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) — “the diagnostic bible for mental health professionals the world over—and a cash cow for the American Psychiatric … Continue reading
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
Jackie Salit: “Independents believe this is supposed to be a democracy…”
Why are more and more Americans declaring themselves ‘independent?’ Who are the independents, and what do they stand for? What does it mean to be a member of an anti-party? How do we transform a political culture which assumes that … 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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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
Lois Holzman to present at conference in Hangzhou, China
Institute director Lois Holzman will be a guest presenter at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies in Hangzhou, China, October 22-23, 2011. The conference is organized by the Center for the Study of Marxist Social Theory at … 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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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
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