Re: [xmca] Creativity & Social Transformation & Children's Pla

Send whatever paper you like, Francine, and we will post on papers for
discussion.
mike

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, larry smolucha <lsmolucha@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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 have not be published but the papers exist.)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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