Category: Forum

Crit Ex for the youngest learners

I am teaching a creative thinking course for three-year-old kids and I use a very laid back, inquisitive style when working with the children.  We do the same three big activities every class: Mix/make some kind of clay or dough, …

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Category: Classroom Teaching, Critical Exploration

Conversations and Community

Sometimes I’m lucky enough to overhear a conversation that fits a question I’ve been carrying around. Maybe due to my sense of murkiness on the topic, I’m drawn to listen but reluctant to join. If I’m really lucky, the conversation helps clarify my thinking…

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Category: Forum

Online feedback

Lisa Schneier (2001) describes her role as “helping a group to develop a history of ideas”. The way that Professor Duckworth’s T440 course contains ideas which continually spiral back on each other through the classes, section meetings, readings and fieldworks …

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