Links to allied organizations and projects
A selection of links for critical and creative thinking and reflective practice, with a specialty in science, education, and society. We have included several links from the Open Directory Project, which is a well-edited, non-commercial portal. Other selections highlight members of the CCT Community and allies that the ODP may have missed or classified in hard-to-find places. A website in development by ASCD (added Feb. 01) almost makes our site redundant -- check it out.
We welcome suggested additions and deletions -- and we welcome other organizations and individuals linking our homepage (www.cct.umb.edu) to theirs. Contact cct@umb.edu or 617-287-7636
Contents
Guides and Compilations of Links
Allied Programs in Educational Institutions
- Antioch Ph.D. In Leadership and Change in the Professions
- Boston Writing Project
BWP has established a long-term professional development community through literature institutes, teacher research projects, and courses offered through UMass Boston's Grad. College of Ed.
- Californian Institute for Integral Studies -- Doctoral program in Transformative Learning
- The Center for Creative and Critical Thinking at Delta State University
To share ideas and resources related to Creative and Critical Thinking, please send a sign-up request specifying the critical thinking list to bhayes@dsu.deltast.edu
- Creative Education Foundation
- Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State U.
Under leadership of Richard Paul, sponsors an International conference consisting of professional development workshops and trainer training
- Center for Reflective Community Practice at M.I.T.
"helping people know what they know, improving community practice through reflection and learning, building grounded knowledge from reflection on practice, and developing tools and technology to support this work"
- Critical Thinking on the Web: Institutes, Centers and Societies
- Creative and Critical at Maricopa College, CA
- Critical and Creative Analysis M.A., Goldmsiths University of London
- Education for Sustainability, UMass Boston.
Teaching, Outreach, Research, Operations that further a vision of a sustainable economy, equitable governance, and an engaged populace.
- Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
Offers courses available to UMB students at UMB tuition rates
- Environmental Studies Program, UMass Boston.
undergraduate program of study
- Idea Center (Kansas State U. Continuing Ed.)
"Getting creative about critical thinking"
- International Center for Studies in Creativity
- International School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam
Includes a program on Science and Technology Studies
- KaosPilots provides an entrepreneurial education for young entrepreneurs and project leaders with a creative edge and a global mind.
- Lesley University, Doctoral Program in Educational Studies, Highly individualized program. Requries two residential semesters at Cambridge, MA campus.
- Liberal Arts programs online
- The Mirror Project, teaches youth to create vidoes about their own life experiences and uses videos to "create a window into the lives of people who remain strangers due to ethnic, cultural, age, or socioecoomic barriers." Led by Robert Arˇvalo
- Organizational Approaches to Transformation and Healing
certificate program at Plymouth State University (NH) that "challenges traditional models and examines the implications of emerging paradigms for organizational health"
- Social Justice Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
An interdisciplinary graduate program with a focus on social diversity and social justice education, K-higher ed.
- Thinking for Change, a resource center for critical and creative thinking and reflective practice
- Teachers as Scholars, a Boston-based professional development program for teachers that offers 1 to 3 day long seminars on arts, humanities or science topics that the seminar leaders (university faculty) are passionate about.
- Think Tank for Community Collge Critical Thinking teachers
- University of Malta,
The Edward De Bono Institute
For The Design And Development Of Thinking
- Touchstones Discussion project, "to develop discussion programs that build community and foster dialogue that creates change."
Organizations and businesses
- American Creativity Association
resource for learning and applying creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and ideation theory, tools, and techniques; global network of creative professionals
- ASCD (Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
- Boston Facilitators Roundtable. For info email abbyyanow@hotmail.com
- Center for Creative Learning, Inc.
downloadable files and a
searchable data base on creativity assessment resources, a
wide range of books on CPS and talent development, and web-based courses
- Center for Diversity Leadership
- Creativity Portal
" an imagination inducing sanctuary for artists, writers, crafters, and creativity enthusiasts" that solicits submissions
- Consultants Network for Excellence in Non-profits
- Dulwich Centre for Narrative Therapy and Community Work
- www.OnlineCreativeConcepts.com, Web Portal for International Issues and Non-Profit Organizations
- Gravity Arts
Customized educational services and products in music and dance
- Hartford Critical/Creative Thinking Center
P.O. Box 320188 - Hartford, CT 06132-0188; Phone: 860-233-8650 or Fax: 860-233-8966; e-mail: info@hartfordthinkingcenter.com
- The Highlander Center (Highlander Education and Research Center)
Grassroots organizing, education, and community building for social justice and genuine democracy since the 1930s
- Institute of Reflective Practice, U.K.
- International Association of Facilitators
Promotes facilitation through "Methods Exchange, Professional Growth, Practical Research, Collegial Networking and Support Services."
- ISETA (International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives)
At ISETA conferences presenters model teaching alternatives by engaging their audience in activity and dialogue.
- MindTools.com,
"Essential Skills for an Excellent Career"
- National Center for Cross-Disciplinary Teaching and Learning
- National Center for Teaching Thinking
- NCIIA (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance)
"nurtur[ing] a new generation of innovators by promoting curricula designed to teach creativity, invention and entrepeneurship and support[ing] innovative student projects."
- New England Cognitive Center
(formerly the Hartford Thinking Center)
- Organizational Development Learning Group
Monthly meetings based on experiential learning. E-newsletter that circulates to over 700 people. Subgroups--Job seeking, Consulting, and Book Club
- Other Economies are Possible!
Strengthening, connecting and creating grassroots economic alternatives in New England and the World
- Popular Education and Social Change Conferences
Organized by Paolo Friere Institute for Popular Education and allied groups
- Public Conversations Project
"promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, worldviews, and positions related to divisive public issues"
- School for Designing a Society
"'What would I consider a desirable society?' is given serious playful thoughtful discussion, and taken as an input to creative projects"
- SouthCoast Community Collaborative Design Studio
a project of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, with mission is to build community capacity through the use of advanced collaborative design practices
- Teaching for a Change
Annual conferences provide "experiences and information that inspires personal and professional growth" (following the work of Parker Palmer)
- Wisconsin Center for Excellence in Critical Thinking
Courses
- Courses from the CCT Program at UMass Boston
- Southeast Missouri State University, Creative and Critical Thinking Course
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Creative and Critical Thinking, Spring, 1999
- Center for Critical Thinking, at Sonoma State Univ.
Publications
- Critical & Creative Thinking: Strategies for Classroom Inquiry, by Susan Wilks, University of Melbourne, Australia (1995)
How teachers can create a "community of inquiry"--a supportive, nurturing classroom environment that fosters reasoning and critical thinking. ISBN: 0-435-08869-6
- Subscription to Critical and Creative Thinking,
Clive Lindop
Critical and Creative Thinking, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, 3280, AUSTRALIA.
- Critical Thinking and Collaborative Learning, Tomorrow's Professor Msg 173.
- Incorporating Critical and Creative Thinking processes in Sasketchewan's K-12 curricula
- A library providing K-12 educators with a range of articles on critical thinking
- Theses and Syntheses of students of the CCT Program, UMass Boston
- What is critical thinking?" by R. Ennis
- Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning, by Jack Mezirow
Individuals' Sites
Science, Education, and Society
- Council for Responsible Genetics
- Doing Biology (A text of cases for teaching biology in its social context)
- Gentech (Subverting the gender divide in computer education)
- The Human Nature Review, a web site for information, coverage of the literature, guides and links to forums, egroups and other resources concerned with the understanding of human nature.
- International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Biology
- ISIS (Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Loka Institute
"Making Science and Technology Responsive
to Democratically Decided Social and Environmental Concerns"
- National Association for Science, Technology and Society
- New England Workshop on Science and Social Change
innovative, interaction-intensive workshop designed to facilitate discussion and longer-term collaboration among college faculty who teach and write about interactions between scientific developments and social change
- Science as Culture (Popular journal on science-in-society)
- Science, Technology, and Values Program, UMass Boston.
undergraduate program of study
- SHiPs (=Sociology, History and Philosophy in Science teaching)
A Science Teachers' Network & Resource Center co-ordinated by Douglas Allchin at the University of Minnesota. Email ships@tc.umn.edu
New Directions in Science Education (see also Science, Education, and Society)
- BioQuest (consortium promoting inquiry-based learning in high school and college biology)
- Girls and Women in Science Conference
An annual "minds-on, hands-on science workshop weekend" at Beloit College, WI
- NCISLA
National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science at the University of Wisconsin -- Research and Teacher Resources
including MUSE (Modeling for Understanding in Science Education)
- PROMISE (PRoject for Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Studies in Education)
- Southern Illinois U., Dept. of Medical Education
Active proponents of Problem-Based Learning in medical education
- STEMTEC (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teacher Education Collaborative)
Introduces student-active and inquiry-based teaching to college and school teachers with the ultimate goal of increasing the pool of potential science and mathematics teachers. Based in Western Mass.
- Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education