Message from Francine Smolucha:
To facilitate future discussions of creativity, social transformations, and children's play -
it would be helpful for you to see the scope of my work in these areas.
(My academic background, publications, and conferences presentations.)
Mike Cole's e-mail to me mentioned that xmca has a new interest in discussing these
topics - so I have joined the discussion at just the right time. Mike suggested that I post one
of my papers for discussion. I would probably pick the chapter I wrote for Play in Early
Childhood Education (Fall 1997) titled "Post-Piagetian Perspectives on Play." It provides
a good review of the research literature on the Vygotskian perspective (the post-Piagetian
perspective that still dominates play research.)
I am sending you a modified version of my Curriculum Vitae with references to all
my published works. If there is a publications that you are interested in and can not
access through a library request or ERIC, let me know and I will send you a paper
copy or perhaps we can post it on-line. (Some of my most recent conference presentations
have not be published but the papers exist.)
CURRICULUM VITAE of Francine Smolucha
April 14, 2008
Selected entries for xmca reference
ACADEMIC TRAINING:
Degrees:
The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1973-1991
Degree: Ph.D., Educational Psychology (Advisor: Jacob Getzels)
Conferral of Doctoral Degree: August 30, 1991
Dissertation: The Origins of Object Substitutions in Social Pretend Play
(Chair: Peggy Miller)
Foreign Language: Russian
Degree: Master of Arts (Social Sciences Division) March, 1975
Master’s Thesis Paper: Paradigm Changes in Psychology
(Advisor: Stephen Toulmin)
Post-Doctoral Studies:
The University of Illinois at Chicago. Summer Institute 2005
Department of Psychiatry,
International Center on Response to Catastrophe
Course: Qualitative Research Methods
The University of Illinois at Chicago. Spring, 1998
Two graduate courses in Women’s Studies
(Gender and Multiculturalism; Neurological Differences)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Full-time
1976 -2006 Moraine Valley Community College
Palos Hills, Illinois
Professor of Psychology
Adjunct Faculty
1991- 1996 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Adjunct Faculty, Educational Psychology
1994- 1996 Governors State University
University Park, Illinois
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology
(Courses: Learning Cognition; History of Psychology)
PUBLICATIONS:
Spring 2003 “The Teening of Preschool Play”
in O. Saracho and B. Spodek (eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on
Play in Early Childhood Education ,pages 153-170.
Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Fall 1997 Human Development: A Synergistic Approach
(a textbook for a course in life-span human development)
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Synergistic Psychology Press
Fall 1997 "Post-Piagetian Perspectives on Play"
(Larry Smolucha, co-author) in
B. Spodek & O. Saracho (eds.)
Play in Early Childhood Education
State University of New York Press
Spr., 1992 "A Reconstruction of Vygotsky's Theory of Creativity"
The Creativity Research Journal. Vol 5 (1)
"The Relevance of Vygotsky's Theory of Creative Imagination
for Contemporary Research on Play"
The Creativity Research Journal. Vol 5 (1)
"Vygotsky's Theory: Another Paradigm for Psychology, or an
Opportunity for a Synergistic Psychology?"
The Creativity Research Journal. Vol 5 (1)
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
"The Social Origins of Private Speech During Pretend Play"
in R. Diaz and L. Berk (Eds.) Private Speech: From Social
Interaction to Self-Regulation. New York: Erlbaum Publishing.
Win., 1991 "Imagination and Creativity of the Adolescent" by
L.S. Vygotsky (trans. Francine Smolucha)
Soviet Psychology, Vol. 29 No.1.
Spr., 1990 "A Vygotskian Perspective on Critical Thinking"
United States Department of Education, Educational Resources
Information Center (E.R.I.C.). ERIC Document No. ED 314 770.
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Spr., 1989 "The Relevance of Vygotsky's Theory of Creative Imagination
for Contemporary Research on Play"
United States Department of Education, Educational Resources
Information Center (E.R.I.C.). ERIC Document No. ED 314 168.
Win., 1990 "Imagination and Creativity in Childhood" by L.S. Vygotsky,
(trans. Francine Smolucha)
Soviet Psychology Vol. 28 No.1.
Sum., 1989 "Ego-syntonic Aspects of Adult Play and Creativity"
United States Department of Education, Educational Resources
Information Center (E.R.I.C.). ERIC Document No. ED 308 458.
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Sum., 1988 "Synergistic Psychology Applied to Artistic Creativity"
Published in the Conference Proceedings of the Xth International
Colloquium on Empirical Aesthetics
Barcelona, Sicily, Oct. 1988.
Also, published by the United States Department of Education,
ERIC Document No. ED 309 118.
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Sum., 1988 "Synergistic Psychology: Toward a Synthesis of
Psychoanalytic and Vygotskian Theories."
United States Department of Education, Educational Resources
Information Center (E.R.I.C.). ERIC Document No. ED 300 710.
Fall, 1986 "A Fifth Piagetian Stage: The Collaboration between
Imagination and Logical Thought in Artistic Creativity"
in POETICS: International Review for the Theory of
Literature (Volume 15, No. 4-6)
North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. (Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Fall, 1986 "L.S. Vygotsky's Theory of Creative Imagination"
SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen
Literaturwissenschaft (Jg. 5(1986), Heft 2)
published by the Siegen University, West Germany.
Also, published by the United States Department of Education,
ERIC Document No. ED 274 919.
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Fall, 1985 “A Fifth Piagetian Stage:
The Collaboration Between Logical and
Analogical Thinking in Artistic Creativity"
Visual Arts Research , Vol. 11, No. 2 (Issue 22)
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Win. , 1984 "Creativity as a Maturation of Symbolic Play"
The Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 18, No. 4
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
Sum., 1984 "A Review of Howard Gardner's Book Art, Mind, and Brain"
The Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 18, No. 2.
Sum., 1983 "The Creative Process in Art: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
by an Artist and a Psychologist" ERIC Document No. ED 260 008
(Larry Smolucha, co-author)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
September, 2006 “Internet Simulation on International Negotiations
on Immigration with Psychology Students”
Fordham University Conference
of Psychology NGOs to the United Nations
Fordham University, New York City
September, 2005 “Conflict Prevention on Campuses
and in Communities”
Fordham University Conference
of Psychology NGOs to the United Nations
Fordham University, New York City
June 2002 “The Teening of Preschool Play”
Fifth Congress of the International Society
Cultural Research and Activity Theory
Vrije University, Amsterdam.
(Invited speaker)
April 2002 “The Semiology of Childhood”
Biennial Conference of the International Society for
for the Study of Literary Semantics.
University of Birmingham, Unilted Kingdom
November 1997 “A Synergistic Approach to Infant Education”
Symposium on Early Childhood Education
University of Illinois at Urbana
August, 1997 “Artistic Creativity from a Synergistic Perspective”
Symposium at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Chicago, Illinois
April, 1991 “The Origins of Object Substitutions in Children’s Pretend Play”
The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois
April, 1990 “A Vygotsian Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking”
Science and Technology for Education in the 1990's:
U.S. and Soviet Perspectives
Northwestern Pennsylvania Consortium of Soviet Studies
Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania
April, 1989 "Symposium on Vygotsky’s Theory of Creativity"
National Convention of the Society for Research in
Child Development, Kansas City , Missouri
Oct., 1988 “A Synergistic Approach to Artistic Creativity”
Xth International Colloquium on Empirical Aesthetics,
Barcelona, Sicily
Aug,, 1986 “Vygotsky’s Theory of Creativity”
The American Psychological Association,
94th Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
Aug., 1985 “The Colloboration of Imagination and Logic in Creativity Thinking”
IXth International Colloquium on Empirical Aesthetics
The University of California, Santa Cruz
Apr., 1985 “Creativity as a Fifth Piagetian Stage in Adulthood”
INSEA 8th Regional Congress: Europe, Africa, Middle East
Bath, England
Oct., 1984 “A Developmental Model of Creativity”
3rd National Symposium for Research in Art Education
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mar., 1984 “Creativity as the Maturation of Pretend Play”
National Art Education Association National Convention
Miami, Florida
Sept., 1983 “Artistic Creativity as a Consciously Directed Cognitive Process”
International Conference on Psychology and the Arts
sponsored by the British Psychological Association and the
University of Wales; Cardiff, Wales
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