Dr. Lois Holzman will present the keynote address on Saturday, November 5th (for a full event schedule please visit the AEE website).
Join Dr. Holzman for her interactive preconference "An Introduction to Social Therapeutics: Creating Performative Groups for Education and Development" on November 2nd.

Dr. Lois Holzman is a developmental psychologist internationally recognized as a pioneer of a culturally- and performatory-based approach to human development and learning. Her research, training, and project development experience spans early childhood through adult learning, both in and outside of school settings. Her approach to learning and learning environments builds on the work of Lev Vygotsky, who advanced the understanding of learning in early childhood as social, cultural, improvisational, and playful.

Lois is Co-founder and Director of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York City. She is also the organizer of the bi-annual Performing the World conference, Chair of the Cultural Historical Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association, and has initiated collaborative cultural/psychological/community-building projects based in performance and play among psychologists, social workers, and educators from the United States, eastern and western Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Among her books are Vygotsky at Work and Play; Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models; Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (with Fred Newman); and Postmodern Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind.