Fulani’s Tools and Results: Development as Black Empowerment
Fulani's Tools and Results: Development as Black Empowerment, Omar Ali
Creating a New Performance of Health
Massad, S. Creating a New Performance of Health. Presented Performance Science Education: Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education & Research, University of Connecticut Health Center,Farmington CT, January 5, 2012.
Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy
Holzman, L. (in press). Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy Draft to appear, in Chinese, in Register of Social Critical Theories.
Fred Newman and the Practice of Method
Holzman, L. Fred Newman and the Practice of Method. Presented at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies, Hangzhou China, October 22-23, 2011.
Activity and Performance (and their Discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method
Holzman, L. and Newman, F. (in press). Activity and Performance (and their Discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method. In T. Strong and A. Lock (Eds.), Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice. London: Oxford University Press.
Play and Performance
Lobman, C. and O'Neill, B. (2011) Play and performance. Play and Culture Studies. Vol. 11. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Democracy and Development: The Role of Outside of School Experiences in Preparing Young People to Be Active Citizens
Lobman, C. (2011). Democracy and Development: The Role of Outside of School Experiences in Preparing Young People to Be Active Citizens. Democracy & Education. Vol. 19 (1). Article 5.
“Effective Education for the 21 Century,” — Bangladesh
The Daily Sun, Daily Amader Orthoneeti, Sun Academia, News Today and Metro report on series of workshops titled, “Effective Education for the 21 Century,” held in Dhaka, Bangladesh May 2011 and co-sponsored by Daffodil International University and the East Side Institute.
Carrie Lobman interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve and Mary Alice
Carrie Lobman interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve and Mary Alice, 2011. Listen
Lois Holzman interviewed by Ricardo Lana on the radio in Brazil, 2011
Lois Holzman interviewed by Ricardo Lana on the radio in Brazil, 2011. Listen
A Performatory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology
Martinez, Jaime E. (2011) A performatory approach to teaching, learning and technology. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishing.
Let’s Pretend, Solving the Educational Crisis in America: A Special Report
Newman, F. and Fulani, L. Let's Pretend, Solving the Educational Crisis in America: A Special Report. All Stars Project Inc. White Paper.
How much of a loss is the loss of self?
Holzman, L. (2010). How much of a loss is the loss of self? Understanding Vygotsky from a social therapeutic perspective and vice versa. New Ideas in Psychology: An International Journal of Innovative Theory in Psychology.
Without Creating ZPDs There is No Creativity
Holzman, L. (2010). Without Creating ZPDs There is No Creativity. In Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts, edited by Cathrene Connery, Vera John-Steiner and Ana Marjanovic-Shane. Peter Lang Publishers.
Let’s Develop! (Serbian Edition)
Newman, F. (2009) Let's Develop! (Serbian edition). Mostart, Zemun. (Originally published by the Community Literacy Research Project, New York, 1994)
Where is the Magic in Cognitive Therapy?
Newman, F. (2009). Where is the Magic in Cognitive Therapy? (A philo/psychological investigation). in R. House and Lowenthal, L (Eds.), Against and For CBT Towards a Constructive Dialogue?. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books
Vygotsky at Work and Play
Holzman, L. (2009). Vygotsky at work and play. New York: Routledge.
Ethics as Activity: Building Collaborative, Expansive and Just Social Work
Dabby, M.; Halim F.; Holliman, D.; Karliner, S.; Pearl, D. and Silverman, B. (2008). Ethics as Activity: Building Collaborative, Expansive and Just Social Work. Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics, 5 (2).
From passive objects to active subjects: Young people, performance and possibility
Farmer, E. (2008). From passive objects to active subjects: Young people, performance and possibility. Journal of the Community Development Society. 39 (2).
Creating Stages for Development
Holzman, L. (2008). Creating Stages for Development: A learning community with many tasks and no goal. In A. Sumaras, A. Freese, C. Kosnick and C. Beck (Eds.), Learning communities in practice. NY: Springer.
Keynote Presentation
Holzman, L. (2008) Keynote presentation at the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth orientation. A program of the All Stars Project, New York, September 2008.
ABC Eyewitness News
ABC Eyewitness News, December 2007, In tonight’s extra, learning like you’ve never seen it before! Improvisation as a learning tool. We know it works in comedy but now in 30 schools in our area it is also working in the classroom. And, in the process, giving kids a sense of what’s possible… View Clip
Theatre for social transformation
Theatre for social transformation, Dramatool.org, 22 October 2007 Performing The World 4 More than 250 practitioners and scholars participated in Performing The World 4 (PTW4) just outside New York, between October 12-14, in roundtable debates and workshops that looked at and rehearsed social transformation. The conference met IDEA President Dan Baron Cohen who presented IDEA’s key aims and projects, and was completely seduced by 25 military police from north-east Brazil whose dance theatre workshops and performances aim at building inclusion, citizenship and social transformation. Read More
Cops, Kids and Culture
Holzman, L. (2007) Cops, Kids and Culture. Presentation at The Police and Our Young People: What is their Relationship? A Conference Sponsored by the All Stars Project, New York, June 2007.
Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum
Lobman,C. and Lundquist, M. (2007). Unscripted Learning: Using Improv Activities Across the K-8 Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press.
Teaching Improv to Teachers
Teaching Improv to Teachers, WNYC Radio, Beth Fertig “Improv is usually associated with comedy groups like the Upright Citizen’s Brigade or Chicago’s Second City. But classroom teachers also use improvisation exercises to help their students work together and become more creative. A new program is training city teachers how to use these improv technigues…” Read More
The Developing Teachers Fellowship Program
Lobman, C. (2007) The Developing Teachers Fellowship Program: Exploring the Use of Improv Theatre for the Professional Development Inner City Teachers. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago Il.
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
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