CCTNetwork2March2015

Clearness and Questions: An Indirect Approach to Promoting Critical Thinking

Online-only event: Monday, March 2, 2015 from 7:00-8:30pm ET, on Google+ Hangout

RSVP to cct@umb.edu with your Gmail address to receive an email invitation to the Google+ Hangout session.

All are invited, including new, returning, and prospective students and others in the CCT community. This open house will involve a listening and dialogue activity modeled after the idea of a Clearness Committee and development of questions by a group of participants to help another participant become clear about an issue of personal concern.

An indirect approach to promoting critical thinking Instead of asking a person to defend their thinking--to examine their evidence, assumptions, and reasoning--or put it under the spotlight--how does the idea/practice look like from this angle, that angle...?--the following process shifts the focus to helping the person shape inquiry. (more details or pdf) Recording of the session