32nd International Conference Sessions

Conference and Preconference Session Titles

July 23-26, 2012
Preconference July 21-22 

Thank you for attending our July conference. The following were the titles for the sessions this year. The details for next year's conference will be posted shortly. 

Registration will open in December.

PRECONFERENCE (Choose one of the following 2-day sessions):

• On Teaching Within the Spirit of the Oxford Tutorial…Richard Paul

• Fostering Multilogical Thinking within the Disciplines…Gerald Nosich

• Practical Ideas for Improving Student Learning…Enoch Hale

• Discovering the Layers Underneath the Layers of Critical Thinking…Linda Elder and Rush Cosgrove
(This is an advanced session and will be limited to approximately 10 participants)

CONFERENCE 

Day One (choose one): 

• Some Ways to Design Instruction Using Critical Thinking as the Driving Force…Richard Paul

• For Administrators: the Foundations of Critical Thinking and How They Can Be Infused Across
the Curriculum…Linda Elder

• Practical Methods for Fostering Critical Thinking in Secondary Instruction…Enoch Hale

• Understanding the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Socratic  Questioning…Gerald Nosich

•The art of analyzing transcripts of interviews of higher education faculty …Rush Cosgrove This is an advanced session for returning registrants

Day Two Morning (choose one):

• What Can Research Really Tell Us About the Human Mind?...Linda Elder

• Overcoming Bad Habits of Teaching and Learning…Gerald Nosich

• Advanced Session: Analyzing Readings Using the Element of Thought…
Enoch Hale

• Two Conflicting Theories of Knowledge, Learning, and Literacy: The Didactic and the Critical …Richard Paul

Day Two Afternoon (choose one):

• Why we are all pathological thinkers and what can be done about it…Linda Elder

• Cultivating the intellect through close reading and substantive writing…Enoch Hale

• Teaching Students to think within the logic of a discipline…Gerald Nosich

• The Higher and Lower Politics of Critical Thinking …Richard Paul

Day Three

Concurrent sessions – TBA – if you would like to send a proposal for a concurrent session, please contact Foundation for Critical Thinking Fellow, Dr. Enoch Hale, at hale@criticalthinking.org.  Concurrent sessions are one hour in length. Most sessions are conducted by faculty and administrators who have been working with critical thinking concepts and principles for several years - either in bringing critical thinking into the individual classroom or across the curriculum.

Day Four

• Helping students learn to think within the key concepts in subjects and  disciplines…Gerald Nosich

• Teach so that students think through the content using intellectual traits…Richard Paul

• Four forms of sociocentric thought and the harm they cause…Linda Elder

• Bringing it Home: Critical Thinking at the Institutional Level…Patty Payette and Rush Cosgrove

• Identifying Resources that Foster Critical Thinking….Enoch Hale