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
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
Activating Postmodernism
Holzman, L. (2006). Activating Postmodernism. Theory & Psychology, 16(1): 109-123.
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...
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.
Boundaries, relationships and diversity: Some ethical considerations
Holzman, L. (2005). Boundaries, relationships and diversity: Some ethical considerations. The Advocate (Newsletter of APA Division 37).
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.
Performing a life
Holzman, L. Performing a life (Story). in G. Yancy and S. Hadley (Eds.), Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction. London: Jessica Kingsley.
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.
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)
Associations with Einstein
Newman, F. and Fulani, L. (2005) Associations with Einstein. The Neo-Independent, Spring 2005: 24-33.