Michael Glassman
Biographic Data
| ID | 352005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Glassman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Glassman |
| SIGNATURE | GLASSMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3870-8760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social connection, social exploration, social and platform constraints: The construction and validation of a social media user perception scale
The roles of technology efficacy and networking agency in elementary students' engagement in online and face‐to‐face technology‐mediated learning
Despite the growing use of learning technology in classrooms, factors predicting young students' engagement in contexts fully or partially mediated by technology remain understudied. This study investigated how fourth and fifth grade students' technology self‐efficacy (ie, confidence in utilizing learning management systems) and networking agency (ie, comfort in collaborating and communicating with others online) predicted students' engagement in…
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions
This study examined the moment-by-moment reciprocal relationships between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small-group discussions. Social reasoning refers to students’ justification of knowledge and understanding of complex issues from the social world. Participants included 131 fifth-grade students and their teachers from two public schools. Students and teachers engaged in six weekly collaborati…
Using immersive civic discussion to cultivate civic purpose in elementary schools during politically volatile times
Making immersive storytelling accessible: Interactive low-tech implementation in elementary school civic learning
Immersive storytelling (IST) is usually conceptualized within the framework of technologically immersive tools such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. While these tools offer some unique features (such as visual fidelity, interactivity, and embodied, first-person perspective), their level of technological immersion (based on the system’s objective qualities) might not directly translate to the psychological immersion experienced by the use…
Linking knowledge justification with peers to the learning of social perspective taking
The purpose of this study was to examine whether justifying one’s own social knowledge (moral, societal, psychological) toward complex social-moral issues through collaborative argumentation was associated with the improvement of social perspective taking for elementary students. A total of 129 5th graders (52% female, Mage = 10.98) from six classrooms in two public schools participated in six weekly collaborative small-group discussions to reaso…
Re-claiming Convivial Participation as a Tool for Education: Defund the Police and the 2020 Protests and Their Role(s) in Human Progress
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work
The Soviet psychologist L. S. Vygotsky was immersed in theater and the arts through much of his life, collaborating with scholars of the psychology of acting, including Konstantin Stanislavski’s close confidante and long-time editor Liubov Gurevich, on terms and theories expressed in his historically defining text, An Actor’s Work. This article connects linguistic, theoretical, and methodological aspects of Stanislavski’s work with Vygotsky’s que…
Using a mobile Virtual Reality and computer game to improve visuospatial self-efficacy in middle school students
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: A Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century
Based on historical sources and publication records in the early 20th century, we suggest that Vygotsky’s recognition of the ‘paradox’ in human learning and his conceptualisation of advanced thinking were largely influenced by Stanislavski’s work in theatre. In this paper, we offer some evidence for this argument on Vygotsky’s nascent system of concept development, which ultimately expanded the notion and process of education in modern society. W…
The Development of Early Adolescents’ Social Perspective Taking Through Small-Group Discussion
The current study examined the development of early adolescents’ social perspective taking (SPT) through collaborative small-group discussions. A total of 250 fifth-graders were assigned to three conditions, Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) discussions, Read-Aloud (RA) and Regular Instruction (RI). SPT was assessed before and after the intervention using an action-based argumentation essay task through a theory-driven coding scheme aiming at …
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations
This article outlines links between cybernetics and psychology through the black box metaphor using a tripartite narrative. The first part explores first-order cybernetic approaches to opening the black box. These developments run parallel to the decline of radical behaviorism and advancements in information processing theory and neuropsychology. We then describe how cybernetics migrates towards a second-order approach (expanding and questioning …
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking
This three-part article reinforces crosscurrents between cybernetician Gordon Pask’s work towards creating responsive machines applied to theater and education, and Vygotsky’s theory, to advance sociohistorical approaches into the internet age. We first outline Pask’s discovery of possibilities of a neoclassical cybernetic framework for human–human, human–machine, and machine–machine conversations. Second, we outline conversation theory as an ela…
Need satisfaction and collective efficacy in undergraduate blog-driven classes: A structural equation modelling approach
This paper investigates how psychological needs spurring self-determined motivation relate to collective efficacy for flourishing in online learning communities. Self-determination theory posits individuals experience intrinsic motivation to flourish at educational tasks because of targeted satisfaction of the three psychological needs: autonomy, relatedness, and competence. However, studies conducted to investigate collective, technology-assiste…
The GameStop saga: Reddit communities and the emerging conflict between new and old media
This paper focuses on the (continuing) GameStop (GME) saga, where users of the subreddit Wallstreetbets (and later r/GME) subreddit challenged the flow of financial information from legacy media outlets in understanding financial manipulations and possibilities involved in the GME stock price. An extraordinary surge in value was attributed to activity on Wallstreetbets subreddit where users had been touting the stock for almost a year. While init…
Shaping classroom social experiences through collaborative small‐group discussions
BACKGROUND: Students form interpersonal and intrapersonal classroom social experiences with peers. While diverse intervention programmes have been developed, few have integrated social-emotional learning into academic activities to maximize the potential for learning and development. AIMS: This study examined the effects of collaborative small-group discussions on students' classroom social experiences at the interpersonal and intrapersonal level…
Peer Exclusion: A Social Convention or Moral Decision? Cross-Cultural Insights into Students’ Social Reasoning
In this study, we examined the role of culture on early adolescents’ social reasoning about peer exclusion. A total of 80 U.S. and 149 Taiwanese early adolescents (U.S.: M age = 11.00, SD age = 0.48; Taiwan: M age = 10.45, SD age = 0.39) independently completed a social reasoning essay about peer exclusion. Analyses of the essays based on social-moral theories showed that U.S. students tended to reason about peer exclusion based on social convent…
DeMoocing society: Convivial tools to systems and back again in the information age
Since early development of information technologies, in particular computers and the Internet, there has been tension between those who believe these new technologies and their applications they have been mired in tension. Originally conceived and developed as tools for enabling high level, nonhierarchal engagement in problem-solving and development of information sources they have more recently been appropriated by those who believe the new tech…
Relationship between internet self-efficacy and internet anxiety: A nuanced approach to understanding the connection
The present study makes the case that the individual constituents of internet self-efficacy – search self-efficacy, communication self-efficacy, organisation self-efficacy, differentiation self-efficacy, and reactive/generative self-efficacy – may be of differential importance in predicting internet anxiety within web-assisted learning environments. Two hundred and eighty-nine undergraduate students enrolled in a blog-centric general education co…
Teaching and learning through open source educative processes
Doing Gender Online: New Mothers’ Psychological Characteristics, Facebook Use, and Depressive Symptoms
Open Source Theory .01
This paper attempts to introduce the idea of an Open Source theory of human behavior; a theory emerging out of the capabilities and possibilities offered to humans through activities on the Internet. The Internet offers new types of connections and links between distributed human thinking that can transcend traditional boundaries and hierarchies. Open Source activities began in limited hacker/programming communities, the most famous of which is t…
Investigating Constituent Values and School Policy
Using a sociopolitical perspective to understand the alignment of community values and school policies, we conducted focus groups in three geographically close but economically varied neighborhood in one Midwest urban area. The article presents findings related to constituent values, social capital, and school policies, including charter school policy, NCLB, and busing
Capability Through Participatory Democracy: Sen, Freire, and Dewey
This paper explores possible important relationships and sympathies between Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach framework for understanding the human condition and the educational ideas of John Dewey and Paolo Freire. All three focus on the importance of democratic values in a fair, well-functioning society, while Sen and Freire especially explore the difficulties and possibilities of oppressed populations. Sen suggests that all humans have a rig…
The importance of the second loop in educational technology: An action science study of introducing blogging in a course curriculum
This paper uses an action science approach in analyzing attempts to introduce readable/writable web technology, specifically blogging, into a course curriculum. It is suggested that action science is an important and to this point underused approach for understanding the potential and ramifications of introducing this new technology as a central part of the teaching and learning process. We concentrate especially on Argyris and Schon’s construct …
Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice
John Dewey and L. S. Vygotsky share similar ideas concerning the relationship of activity and learning/development, especially the roles everyday activities and social environment play in the educational process. However, the two theorists are far apart in their conception of the relationship between process and goals in education. Dewey concentrates on means in education, believing that it is the ability of the individual to question through exp…
How to open and sustain a drop-in center for homeless youth
Doing Gender Online: New Mothers’ Psychological Characteristics, Facebook Use, and Depressive Symptoms
Mutual Aid Theory and Human Development: Sociability as Primary
Capability Through Participatory Democracy: Sen, Freire, and Dewey
This paper explores possible important relationships and sympathies between Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach framework for understanding the human condition and the educational ideas of John Dewey and Paolo Freire. All three focus on the importance of democratic values in a fair, well-functioning society, while Sen and Freire especially explore the difficulties and possibilities of oppressed populations. Sen suggests that all humans have a rig…
The importance of the second loop in educational technology: An action science study of introducing blogging in a course curriculum
This paper uses an action science approach in analyzing attempts to introduce readable/writable web technology, specifically blogging, into a course curriculum. It is suggested that action science is an important and to this point underused approach for understanding the potential and ramifications of introducing this new technology as a central part of the teaching and learning process. We concentrate especially on Argyris and Schon’s construct …
Experiences Associated with Intervening with Homeless, Substance-abusing Mothers: The Importance of Success
This article documents the experiences of providing housing and supportive services, or ecologically based treatment, to shelter-recruited, substance-abusing homeless women with young children in their care. Among clients, observed experiences related to housing, substance abuse, and health and mental health care are discussed. Among therapists, experiences related to managing the chaotic nature of the client's lives, wanting to manage the client…
DeMoocing society: Convivial tools to systems and back again in the information age
Since early development of information technologies, in particular computers and the Internet, there has been tension between those who believe these new technologies and their applications they have been mired in tension. Originally conceived and developed as tools for enabling high level, nonhierarchal engagement in problem-solving and development of information sources they have more recently been appropriated by those who believe the new tech…
The Development of Early Adolescents’ Social Perspective Taking Through Small-Group Discussion
The current study examined the development of early adolescents’ social perspective taking (SPT) through collaborative small-group discussions. A total of 250 fifth-graders were assigned to three conditions, Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) discussions, Read-Aloud (RA) and Regular Instruction (RI). SPT was assessed before and after the intervention using an action-based argumentation essay task through a theory-driven coding scheme aiming at …
Shaping classroom social experiences through collaborative small‐group discussions
BACKGROUND: Students form interpersonal and intrapersonal classroom social experiences with peers. While diverse intervention programmes have been developed, few have integrated social-emotional learning into academic activities to maximize the potential for learning and development. AIMS: This study examined the effects of collaborative small-group discussions on students' classroom social experiences at the interpersonal and intrapersonal level…
Teaching and learning through open source educative processes
Semiosis as an educational instrument: The irrelevance of mediation and the relevance of social capital
This paper explores semiosis as an instrument to be used in the classroom in the development of democratic education and a democratic society. In doing so we show the important links between Peirce's later semiotic theory and Dewey's theory of education. The argument is made that later Peirce's works on semiotics should be understood within its Pragmatic context. Semiotics' major contribution to the human condition is as a process and not as a de…
On the Interconnected Nature of Interpreting Vygotsky: Rejoinder to Gredler and Shields Does No One Read Vygotsky’s Words 2004
In response to the critique of Gredler and Shields (2004) of Glassman’s article Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice 2001 we suggest that interpretation of theory is dynamic and based very much on the use of that theory as an instrument. Gredler and Shields argue that Glassman misinterprets Vygotsky because Glassman did not read his words (carefully enough). We, in response, suggest that Gredler and Shields…
Experience and Responding
This article responds to the critiques by O’Brien and Prawat of my article, “Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice.” The central point made by both authors concerns the relationship of process and product in Dewey’s educational philosophy. The authors argue that Dewey did not promote process over product in the classroom and that Dewey and Vygotsky are more similar in spirit and substance than my article sug…
All Things Being Equal: The Two Roads of Piaget and Vygotsky
Moral Activity and Domain Theory: An Alternative Interpretation of Research with Young Children
The Difference between Piaget and Vygotsky: A Response to Duncan
The argument for constructivism
The argument for constructivism
Mutual Aid Theory and Human Development: Sociability as Primary
Where there is no middle ground
Where there is no middle ground
Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice
John Dewey and L. S. Vygotsky share similar ideas concerning the relationship of activity and learning/development, especially the roles everyday activities and social environment play in the educational process. However, the two theorists are far apart in their conception of the relationship between process and goals in education. Dewey concentrates on means in education, believing that it is the ability of the individual to question through exp…
Experience and Responding
This article responds to the critiques by O’Brien and Prawat of my article, “Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice.” The central point made by both authors concerns the relationship of process and product in Dewey’s educational philosophy. The authors argue that Dewey did not promote process over product in the classroom and that Dewey and Vygotsky are more similar in spirit and substance than my article sug…
On the Interconnected Nature of Interpreting Vygotsky: Rejoinder to Gredler and Shields Does No One Read Vygotsky’s Words 2004
In response to the critique of Gredler and Shields (2004) of Glassman’s article Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice 2001 we suggest that interpretation of theory is dynamic and based very much on the use of that theory as an instrument. Gredler and Shields argue that Glassman misinterprets Vygotsky because Glassman did not read his words (carefully enough). We, in response, suggest that Gredler and Shields…
Semiosis as an educational instrument: The irrelevance of mediation and the relevance of social capital
This paper explores semiosis as an instrument to be used in the classroom in the development of democratic education and a democratic society. In doing so we show the important links between Peirce's later semiotic theory and Dewey's theory of education. The argument is made that later Peirce's works on semiotics should be understood within its Pragmatic context. Semiotics' major contribution to the human condition is as a process and not as a de…
How to open and sustain a drop-in center for homeless youth
Five Classrooms: Different forms of ‘democracies’ and their relationship to cultural pluralism(s)
This paper explores the issue of democracy and the role of the democratic classroom in the development of society in general, and the way in which educators understand and deal with diversity in particular. The first part of the paper explores different meanings of democracy and how they can be manifested in the classroom. We argue that the idea of a ‘democratic classroom’ is far too broad a category; democracy is defined in action and can have r…
Contents, Vol. 39, 1996
Understanding Vygotsky’s Motive and Goal: An Exploration of the Work of A.N. Leontiev
The Soviet psychologist Leontiev worked closely with Vygotsky in an attempt to develop a Marxist psychology. Near the end of Vygotsky’s life Leontiev and other members of the Vygotsky group split (or were split away) to form a group in Kharkov. There was also a split in the direction of the paradigm. Vygotsky moved more and more to make semiotic mediation through culturally developed symbols a central aspect of the analysis of thinking, while Leo…
The problems and barriers of RHYA as social policy
New Parents' Facebook Use at the Transition to Parenthood
New parents' Facebook use was examined from a social capital perspective. Surveys regarding Facebook use and parenting satisfaction, parenting self‐efficacy, and parenting stress were completed by 154 mothers and 150 fathers as part of a larger study of dual‐earner, Midwestern U.S. couples making the transition to parenthood. Results indicated that mothers used Facebook more than fathers, and that mothers perceived an increase in use over the tra…
A Community of Voices: Educational Blog Management Strategies and Tools
Experiences Associated with Intervening with Homeless, Substance-abusing Mothers: The Importance of Success
This article documents the experiences of providing housing and supportive services, or ecologically based treatment, to shelter-recruited, substance-abusing homeless women with young children in their care. Among clients, observed experiences related to housing, substance abuse, and health and mental health care are discussed. Among therapists, experiences related to managing the chaotic nature of the client's lives, wanting to manage the client…
Open Source Theory .01
This paper attempts to introduce the idea of an Open Source theory of human behavior; a theory emerging out of the capabilities and possibilities offered to humans through activities on the Internet. The Internet offers new types of connections and links between distributed human thinking that can transcend traditional boundaries and hierarchies. Open Source activities began in limited hacker/programming communities, the most famous of which is t…
Investigating Constituent Values and School Policy
Using a sociopolitical perspective to understand the alignment of community values and school policies, we conducted focus groups in three geographically close but economically varied neighborhood in one Midwest urban area. The article presents findings related to constituent values, social capital, and school policies, including charter school policy, NCLB, and busing
Capability Through Participatory Democracy: Sen, Freire, and Dewey
This paper explores possible important relationships and sympathies between Amartya Sen’s Capabilities Approach framework for understanding the human condition and the educational ideas of John Dewey and Paolo Freire. All three focus on the importance of democratic values in a fair, well-functioning society, while Sen and Freire especially explore the difficulties and possibilities of oppressed populations. Sen suggests that all humans have a rig…
The importance of the second loop in educational technology: An action science study of introducing blogging in a course curriculum
This paper uses an action science approach in analyzing attempts to introduce readable/writable web technology, specifically blogging, into a course curriculum. It is suggested that action science is an important and to this point underused approach for understanding the potential and ramifications of introducing this new technology as a central part of the teaching and learning process. We concentrate especially on Argyris and Schon’s construct …
Teaching and learning through open source educative processes
Psychology (35 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Epistemology (20 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works)