Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Essays, Talks and Articles by Lois Holzman - Paperback

by Tony Perone (Author), Carrie Lobman (Author)

Lois Holzman is an international activist who has combined rigorous scholarship with grassroots community organizing. Big Ideas and Revolutionary Activity: Selected Essays, Talks and Articles by Lois Holzman is a curated selection of Holzman's writings that offers a taste of the range of her work in terms of subject matter, style and audience. Selected writings discuss radical approaches to community building, education, human development, learning, performance activism, play and therapy via academic articles and chapters, invited talks and blog posts. Readers across contexts and backgrounds will find new ideas, practical tools and inspiration from these writings to serve their community organizing, learning, scholarship, and teaching activities.

Author Biography

Carrie Lobman (editor) is associate professor of education and Chair of the Department of Learning and Teaching at the Graduate School of Education AT Rutgers University and the director of the East Side Institute's Revolutionary Conversation series. She is an educational researcher and trainer whose work explores the value of performance, improvisation and play for learning, development and social change. Lobman received her doctorate in early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Tony Perone (editor) is a faculty member in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma where he teaches courses in human development and life-span imaginative play. His research and teaching interests include the life-span presence, development, and benefits of imaginative play activity and the role of improvisational theater activities in formal learning environments, in teacher education and in community organizations. Perone received his doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.