lholzman@sescva.esc.edu
lholzman@sescva.esc.edu
Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:31:05 -0400
My interest has always been human development, although what that means to me
and how I work changes. Vygotsky's method and ways to create practices from it
that support continuous growth are what I've been doing for some time now. I
lead a marvelous team in a lab school in NY--the Barbara Taylor School--which
is "Vygotskian." Our emphasis is on creating zpds. As an activity-centered
rather than curriculum-centered school, the learning we seek to create is not
separate from the joint activity of creating the environment in which the
learning may take place. The other projects I'm involved in are similar in
method but different in focus, a youth program--the All Stars Talent Show
Network--and the developmental psychotherapy, social therapy.
Theoretically, the issues of interest to me that might be points of
conversation have to do with activity and mediation (I think I have a different
view from most list members), play, language and games (and Vygotsky and
Wittgenstein), culture and psychology. Fred Newman and I are following up on
our 1993 Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist with a book called Psychology
Without Philosophy, a history of philosophy and psychology anf the potentials
of postmodernism.