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 617-287-6520
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.
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
"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"
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
certificate program at Plymouth State University (NH) that "challenges traditional models and examines the implications of emerging paradigms for organizational health"
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.
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)
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
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."
"promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, worldviews, and positions related to divisive public issues"
a project of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, with mission is to build community capacity through the use of advanced collaborative design practices
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.
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.
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
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)
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.