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School of knock-knocks: Comedy schools aren’t all just for laughs

School of knock-knocks: Comedy schools aren’t all just for laughs, Columbia News Service, Eddie Vega, ” A sudden horror: the kind that sears itself into memory and resurfaces in recurring nightmares, the kind that wrecks nascent careers, the kind aspiring comic Bradley Moore experienced at age 6. Alone on stage in a room large enough to swallow his lanky frame, he faced a caboodle of glaring parents and other children his age…” Read more

ESIAdmin2014-05-11T21:07:52+00:00March 13th, 2007|Press|

Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School

Written by Janet Wootten Good News Network Thursday, 25 January 2007 Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of the exhausted teacher, run down by poor inner-city schools. Instead of burned-out, Rachel is lit up -- and so are her students. The kids read more books than any other class in the city of New York, placing them at the pinnacle of NYC's Accelerated Reading Program. This is a story of how Rachel beat the odds using a playful (improvisational) approach to teaching... Her class is a New York City success story. Eighty-five percent of

ESIAdmin2014-05-11T20:55:52+00:00January 25th, 2007|Press|

Giving away the theatre. The Youth Onstage!

Friedman, D. (2006) Giving away the theatre. The Youth Onstage! Community Performance School: A study in building bridges between theatre professionals and inner city youth. CommunityEngagedTheatre.com

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T03:19:22+00:00November 8th, 2006|2006, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Community Building|

Activating Postmodernism

Holzman, L. (2006). Activating Postmodernism. Theory & Psychology, 16(1): 109-123.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T03:22:21+00:00February 28th, 2006|2006, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Post-Modern Psychologies|

African activists take the stage at New York performance summit

New York Amsterdam News, Oct 27-Nov 2, 2005. Vol. 96, Issue 44 Magak, Kitche Healthcare activists, educators and therapists working in South Africa, Malawi, Senegal and Kenya came together in Tarrytown, NY, last week for the third biennial performance summit, Performing the World 3...

ESIAdmin2021-02-18T01:22:53+00:00October 27th, 2005|Press|

Community development as improvised performance: How a New York housing project turned around

Farmer, E. (2005). Community development as improvised performance: How a New York housing project turned around. Progressive Planning, Spring 2005, 163.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T03:33:19+00:00October 17th, 2005|2005, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Community Building|

Boundaries, relationships and diversity: Some ethical considerations

Holzman, L. (2005). Boundaries, relationships and diversity: Some ethical considerations. The Advocate (Newsletter of APA Division 37).

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T03:34:46+00:00September 29th, 2005|2005, Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

Developing a psychology that builds community and respects diversity

Karliner, S. and Holzman, L. (2005). Developing a psychology that builds community and respects diversity. Paper presented as part of Cultural Diversity in Psychology: Improving Services by Addressing Public Policy, a symposium at the American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, DC.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T05:46:59+00:00August 20th, 2005|2005, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Post-Modern Psychologies|

Vygotsky’s Place in the History of Science

Newman, F. (2005). Vygotsky’s Place in the History of Science. Keynote. Vygotsky at Work and Play in Educational, Therapeutic and Organizational Settings, sponsored by the East Side Insitute and the Research Center at the All Stars Project, Inc.

ESIAdmin2014-05-09T21:41:17+00:00May 9th, 2005|2005, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Vygotsky|

Community Development as Improvisational Performance: A New Framework for Understanding and Reshaping Practice

Farmer, E. (2005) Community Development as Improvisational Performance: A New Framework for Understanding and Reshaping Practice. Journal of the Community Development Society. 36 (2)

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T05:50:29+00:00May 9th, 2005|2005, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Community Building|

Associations with Einstein

Newman, F. and Fulani, L. (2005) Associations with Einstein. The Neo-Independent, Spring 2005: 24-33.

ESIAdmin2014-05-08T22:25:14+00:00February 22nd, 2005|Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

Do Boundaries Inhibit the Growth of New Psychologies?

Holzman, L. (2004) Do Boundaries Inhibit the Growth of New Psychologies? Paper presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T05:52:52+00:00August 9th, 2004|2004, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Post-Modern Psychologies|

What is the “Social” in “Social Development”?

Holzman, L. (2004), What is the "Social" in "Social Development?" Presentation at the Social Development, Social Inequalities and Social Justice, Conference of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T05:53:41+00:00August 2nd, 2004|2004, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Education, Post-Modern Psychologies|

The let’s talk about it model: Engaging young people as partners in creating their own mental health program

Feldman, N. and Silverman, B. (2004) The let's talk about it model: Engaging young people as partners in creating their own mental health program. K. E. Robinson (Ed.), Advances in School-Based Mental Health, Best Practices and Program Models. New Jersey: Civic Research Institute.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T05:56:39+00:00May 9th, 2004|2004, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Youth Development|

A Performance to Become Who We Are Not

Spirituality & Health The Soul/Body Connection (March/April 2004) At Long Last…A Performance to Become Who We Are Not BETSY ROBINSON What if you aren’t good at relationships, a “group person,” a joiner, a team player? What if group activity connotes strain or anxiety that you’d...

ESIAdmin2021-02-18T01:21:40+00:00April 1st, 2004|Press|

The let’s talk about it model: Engaging young people as partners in creating their own mental health program

Feldman, N. and Silverman, B. The let’s talk about it model: Engaging young people as partners in creating their own mental health program. K. E. Robinson (Ed.), Advances in School-Based Mental Health, Best Practices and Program Models. New Jersey: Civic Research Institute.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T17:46:36+00:00December 2nd, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations|

Lev Vygotsky and the new performative psychology: Implications for business and organizations

Holzman, L. (in press). Lev Vygotsky and the new performative psychology: Implications for business and organizations. To appear in D.M. Hosking and S. McNamee (Eds.), Organisational behaviour: Social constructionist approaches. Oslo: Liber.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T17:47:37+00:00November 8th, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Organizational Development, Vygotsky|

Performance of Doctoring

Massad, S. (2003). Performance of Doctoring: A Philosophical and Methodological Approach to Medical Conversation. Advances in Mind-Body Medicine, 19(1): 6-13. (PDF)

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T17:49:06+00:00September 8th, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Medicine|

Changing the Script for Youth Development

Gordon, E., C. B. Bowman, and B. X. Mejia, (2003). Changing the Script for Youth Development: An Evaluation of the All Stars Talent Show Network and the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth. Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T17:51:13+00:00June 30th, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Youth Development|

All Power to the Developing

Newman, F. and Holzman, L. (2003). All Power to the Developing. To appear in the Annual Review of Critical Psychology.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T17:52:59+00:00June 18th, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Post-Modern Psychologies|

Creating our own development

Silverman, B. and Mendez, R. (2003) . On the Move, newsletter of the Center for School Based Health Programs, Spring issue.

ESIAdmin2014-06-11T18:00:09+00:00March 5th, 2003|2003, Chapters, Articles, Presentations, Youth Development|