There were parts of this movie where I doubted my choice. Was I going to have another Jerry McGuire on my hand? In other words, a movie that only half-committed to work critical themes and even then not very well? Thankfully, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit far surpassed Jerry McGuire in many areas…
Here at Abolish Work we not only want to non-vigorously oppose work (vigor is too much effort for us) we also want to non-vigorously talk about alternatives from time to time. We’ve highlighted play via the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky here and here as well as some research from a Boston Globe article and finally a friend of mine, William…
Nick’s Notes: You can find part one, here.) In my last entry I wrote about Vygotsky’s ideas about play in an imaginary situation. A key piece of his theory of play has to do with how rules and imagination help to form one another during games. In this entry I’ve written about where in typical development…
Nick’s Notes: So sorry for the lack of posts lately! I went to MICE this weekend and was swamped by that both nights to feel like adding more to the site. On the plus side we’ve got (more or less) a full week of posts that should go up this week if all goes well!…