Event Title
Plenary 3: Teaching Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Across the Disciplines
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
14-5-2009 9:10 AM
End Time
14-5-2009 10:15 AM
Description
During this roundtable, participants will be asked to write to this prompt: What is critical thinking and how do you teach it? Panelists representing different disciplines – library science, physics, philosophy, math, composition-rhetoric, and education – will then respond to the same prompt while addressing instructional contexts that range from the library to the first year and through graduate studies. Their responses will display not only the richness of disciplinary perspectives on critical thinking, but also how students are challenged as learners and thinkers as they progress through the curriculum. Discussion will then be opened to participant and their perspectives on and pedagogical approaches to critical thinking.
Plenary 3: Teaching Critical Thinking: Perspectives from Across the Disciplines
Moakley Auditorium
During this roundtable, participants will be asked to write to this prompt: What is critical thinking and how do you teach it? Panelists representing different disciplines – library science, physics, philosophy, math, composition-rhetoric, and education – will then respond to the same prompt while addressing instructional contexts that range from the library to the first year and through graduate studies. Their responses will display not only the richness of disciplinary perspectives on critical thinking, but also how students are challenged as learners and thinkers as they progress through the curriculum. Discussion will then be opened to participant and their perspectives on and pedagogical approaches to critical thinking.
Comments
Moderator: Michelle Cox