While pain and despair make front-page headlines, performance activists on the streets, in classrooms, and in the university, are on the ground playing, performing and creating tools for people to develop and grow. Play scholar, performance activist, Vygotskian educator and director of Pedagogy at the East Side Institute, Carrie Lobman has taught play and performance methodology to educators and psychologists around the world. In this class, she will lead a conversation with activists and scholars, inspired by Newman and Holzman, as they share their practice in building community, reinvigorating education and impacting on education policy.
Carrie Lobman, Ed.D. is an associate professor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education and the Institute's director of Pedagogy. She is a trained social therapist and a faculty member in the Institute's international training programs. She leads the Institute's Leading Improvisational Learning Environments Supervisory Group where she supports educators and activists from around the world to develop as innovators and leaders. She is co-author of Unscripted Learning: Using Improvisation across the K-8 Curriculum, and co-editor of Play and Culture Series Volume 11: Play and Performance. Lobman is an international speaker, workshop leader and consultant in the areas of play, performance and improvisation. She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Jelena Aleksic is a journalist for KulturKokoska an online Serbian newspaper and a performer's assistant at "STARA KAPETANIJA." She is working with Tamara Nikolic Maksic to create a series of play/performance workshops based on Fred Newman's Let's Develop: A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth.
Elena Boukouvala, drama and movement therapist, psychologist, counselor of children and young people leads development workshops in Greece, Serbia, Lebanon, the UK and the USA.
Dr. Fernanda Coelho Liberali, professor of Applied Linguistics and Teacher Educator Development at the Pontifica Catolica Universidade de São Paulo brings play and performance to some of the poorest schools in Brazil as a consultant for the Secretariat of Education of the City of São Paulo.
Tamara Nikolic Maksic, professor of Philosophy, Department for Pedagogy and Andragogy, University of Belgrade. She is working with Jelena Aleksic to create a series of play/performance workshops based on Fred Newman's Let's Develop: A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth.
Jim Martinez, professor of Instructional Technology at New York Institute of Technology, School of Education has taught in NYC, Abu Dhabi and Nicaragua and is the author of A Performatory Approach to Teaching, Learning and Technology. Currently leading teacher professional development and service-learning initiatives in Jamaica, Queens elementary schools.
Yuji Moro, professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan successfully links students and professors with poor communities and is spearheading the development of Japan All Stars.
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