Foundation for Critical Thinking Conference 2013 (Call for Proposals)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference Theme: How to Improve Learning Through Critical Thinking   July 22-25, 2013 Preconference: July 20-21, 2013  at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA  As a member of the critical thinking community, you are eligible to submit a proposal to present a concurrent session at our upcoming annual summer conference.  All concurrent sessions should be based on sound research and substantive theory. These sessions will be held on Thursday, July 24 and are one hour in length. All proposals will be evaluated by the fellows of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and selected scholars from the field. We especially invite sessions that focus on the application of critical thinking to instruction (in any subject, discipline, profession, or specialization), or to important issues requiring critical thinking in any domain of human life. We invite sessions from faculty, administrators, scholars, professionals, and teachers at all levels. We invite sessions from professionals in government and from any sector of society. We are looking for sessions that explore the relationships between critical thinking and reasoning within academic subjects and disciplines. We hope to receive sessions that deal with overcoming the barriers to critical thinking development. We welcome sessions focused on the cultivation of the intellect, and the cultivation and assessment of intellectual constructs in any field of study. Thus, we invite proposals that highlight the analysis and assessment of thought in connection with the development of intellectual virtues (such as intellectual humility, intellectual empathy, and intellectual integrity). All concurrent sessions should dovetail with the core concepts of critical thinking presupposed in all focal sessions at the conference. Concurrent presenters will be expected to participate in the entire conference since all sessions should be deeply integrated, each building on the others, each presupposing the same foundational critical thinking concepts and principles. To submit a proposal, email a 5-6 sentence abstract, along with your (brief) conception of critical thinking to Research Fellow, Rush Cosgrove, at cosgrove@criticalthinking.org.  Focal Sessions Include: Internalizing the Foundations of Critical Thinking Using the Oral Examination to Foster Internalization of Essential Concepts Helping Students Improve Their Writing Through the Tools of Critical Thinking  Placing a Substantive Conception of Critical Thinking at the Heart of Teaching and Learning Teaching Students to Think Within a Field or Discipline For Administrators: Understanding the Long-Term Nature of Professional Development in Critical Thinking Advanced Session: Dialogue with Richard Paul - Objections and Replies Teaching Students Fundamental and Powerful Concepts Critical Thinking and the Common Core State Standards Helping Students Come to Terms With Their Own Self-Defeating Attitudes and Behavior Dialogue With Richard Paul on the Importance of Intellectual Virtues in Teaching and Learning Using the Tools of Critical Thinking to Teach Students How to Study and Learn Emancipating the Mind Through Critical Thinking How to Prove You are Fostering Critical Thinking in your Instruction: Designing Your Own Research Project From the Trenches: Classroom Strategies for Equipping Students to Think Critically Fostering Critical Thinking Through Close Reading Designing Instruction so That Students Learn to Think Things Through  Reaching for Self-Command and Self-Actualization Through Critical Thinking Dialogue With Richard Paul on the Possibility of Cultivating  Fairminded Critical Societies    Click Here for complete session descriptions and information on our presenters.     Foundation for Critical Thinking  cct@criticalthinking.org www.criticalthinking.org 707.878.9100 Celebrating over 30 years of working toward essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fairminded critical thinking. Privacy   |   Customer Services Criticalthinking.org Copyright ©2012 Foundation for Critical Thinking