CCT Student Orientation and Community Gathering
4.30-7pm, Thursday September 5
Graduate Student Lounge, 4th Floor Wheatley (at far end of long corridor)
Hosted by CCT Program and CCT Forum (grad. student proganization)
Connect faces, voices, names, and personalities
Initiate informal mentoring and networking among new students, more experienced students, and graduates
Share and experience ways to put critical and creative thinking into practice in schools, workplaces, and other settings
Build community around CCT to support students and faculty
New and prospective students should attend, but all members of CCT Community are welcome.
Food and refreshments provided by CCT Forum, but bring a small potluck contribution if that is convenient given your work and commuting arrangements.
Program
4.30-4.40 Arriving, Food, and Book give-away
4.40-5.15 Ice-melting-introductions, led by Tamami Nakashima
5.20-6.00 Advising, Course planning, Competencies, Reflective Practice, and Q&A sessions
6.00-6.50 Mini-workshop led by Peter Taylor on "Our place in space": Introduction to some tools and themes for critical thinking" (handout, draft of related paper)
At the end of the activity, after thinking of a situation in which they saw something in a fresh way that made them wonder why they previously accepted what they had, participants were asked to think of a word or short phrase that captures what made the re-seeing possible. Without further elaboration, these were the words/phrases given:
engaging historical fiction // necessity -- usual way didn't work // humility & acceptance // pride & independence // disequilibrium // change in geographic location // self-examination // freedom & openness // anticipating the grief of losing autonomy // unbearable formality // children ask why? // questioning doctrine // imagine the opposite // honoring the desire to resolve // meeting someone sane who thinks differently
6.50-7.10 Closing circle -- one thing each person is taking away to chew on/ work with -- and clean up