10 January 2023

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Student Matters

Spring 2023 courses are open for non-degree registration. Prospective students are welcome to register for the following. See the full descriptions here.

• CrCrTh 602, Creative Thinking; Jan. 23-May 10; occasional meetings on some Wednesdays, 7:00-9:45pm (class #10095)
• CrCrTh 670, Thinking, Learning, and Computers; Jan. 23-May 10; weekly meetings on Thursdays, 7:00-9:45pm (class #10096)
• CrCrTh 693, Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change; Jan. 23-May 10; weekly meetings on Thursdays, 4:00-6:45pm (class #10097)

CCT Events

CCT Community Open House (online): Change Through Action
A Dialogue with Angelo Dello Iacono and Erika Pirl
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023, 5:00-6:00pm EST
Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link to join the session and see the event page for more information.

Please join us for this upcoming dialogue where we explore the work of creative practitioners in action. During this event, hosted by the Critical and Creative Thinking graduate program at UMass Boston and facilitated by CCT faculty Ben Schwendener, we will hear from Angelo Dello Iacono and Erika Pirl about their work in creative arts and cultural spaces. We will also share wider dialogue about the connections that we make in our creative directions as reflective practitioners engaged in fostering change in our lives and communities. (Full description).

Dialogue Series on Reflective Practice in a Changing World (online)
Fri. February 3, 2023, 12:00-1:00pm ET: Reflective Practice for Giving and Receiving Mentorship (rescheduled from December)
RSVP to this session | more details on the theme)
Description: These dialogues are free and open to the public. RSVP to the event to receive Zoom login information and reminders for the session.
Reflective Practice is relevant to any field — education, health care, organizational leadership, arts, and sciences, activism and many others. It refers to ways that we continually develop or change the practices that we use in their workplaces, schools, and lives.  The sessions use a structured Dialogue Process format with an emphasis on raising inquiry by diverse participants, rather than through presentation or lecture, supporting participants to develop new ideas about how their own practices might evolve. More information on “Giving and Receiving Mentorship”.

Alum, Student, and CCT Associates Notables

CCT students, alums, and associates are encouraged to send items about accomplishments, new publications, or offerings to the Critical and Creative Thinking community to be included in future newsletters. Please submit items here.

Events

Virtual course: Individual Resilience And Wellbeing
March 20-21, 2023.
This two-day program, hosted by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, is for managers, leaders and individuals wishing to deepen their understanding of resilience and wellbeing in the workplace, what it looks like and how to facilitate it (more…). For more information and registration details, see the website.

TED2023
April 17-21, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada
At this 5-day program with TED talks and other sessions, we’ll be guided by dreamers, inventors and creatives. Innovators, entrepreneurs and builders. Explorers and change-makers. Visionary thinkers and doers from every field of human endeavor. See the website for more information and details.

The 4th International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2023)
August 7, 2023 in Oxford, UK
Website and registration
Description: Educational innovation has become an important issue on a global scale. The evolution of society and technology has provided new ways to improve future teaching achievements. It also allows us to seek different solutions to the problems that were difficult to solve in the past. On the other hand, our conference aims at unveiling and inspecting the philosophical inquiries usually hidden among the lines of logical debate. We hope that inter-disciplinary studies with a social scientific focus can all be traced back to the very source of their philosophical pursuits and eventually contribute to the creation of knowledge.The conference is supported by faculty members from King’s College London, Cardiff University, University of Wolverhampton, University of Murcia.
For more information about registration and call for papers, see the website.
https://www.iceipi.org/