Something Resembling Truth: the institutionalized obstruction of thinking

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Alise Shafer Ivey

Speaker's Country of Origin

USA

Location

RDB 1100

Start Date

17-5-2018 10:30 AM

End Date

17-5-2018 11:30 AM

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Description / Descripción

School has traditionally been a place of questions and answers, call and response. The tidy answers that keep education efficient and measurable undermine the educational goals of thinking, seeking multiple perspectives and acknowledging the messiness that marks the human experience. How can schools foster thinking that embraces the real complexity of life?

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Something Resembling Truth: the institutionalized obstruction of thinking

RDB 1100

School has traditionally been a place of questions and answers, call and response. The tidy answers that keep education efficient and measurable undermine the educational goals of thinking, seeking multiple perspectives and acknowledging the messiness that marks the human experience. How can schools foster thinking that embraces the real complexity of life?