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2023 Critical Thinking Academy

The Academy will entail three days of interactive workshops that will enhance your understanding of critical thinking and how to best foster it in your courses and classes, as well as at your institutions.

The Academy will be held in a retreat setting in beautiful Northwest Arkansas, near renowned Crystal Bridges Museum and world-class biking trails. Participants will stay in local hotels and rentals of their choosing.

This Academy is designed for teachers, faculty, and administrators, as well as government, business, and military trainers and leaders working to bring substantive critical thinking across their respective institutions, or into specific departments or divisions.

The advanced sessions are for those who have been studying in the Paul-Elder Approach to Critical Thinking, and who want to advance their understandings of the theory and application of critical thinking for use in their teaching and work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to work with international authorities on critical thinking in a small, retreat setting.

$496.00


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2023 Critical Thinking Academy

The Academy will entail three days of interactive workshops that will enhance your understanding of critical thinking and how to best foster it in your courses and classes, as well as at your institutions.

The Academy will be held in a retreat setting in beautiful Northwest Arkansas, near renowned Crystal Bridges Museum and world-class biking trails. Participants will stay in local hotels and rentals of their choosing.

This Academy is designed for teachers, faculty, and administrators, as well as government, business, and military trainers and leaders working to bring substantive critical thinking across their respective institutions, or into specific departments or divisions.

The advanced sessions are for those who have been studying in the Paul-Elder Approach to Critical Thinking, and who want to advance their understandings of the theory and application of critical thinking for use in their teaching and work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to work with international authorities on critical thinking in a small, retreat setting.

  • Teachers, faculty, and administrators who seek to understand the core concepts and principles in critical thinking, which are essential to skilled reasoning through problems and issues in every field of study and within all domains of human thought.
  • Teachers, faculty, and administrators at any level who seek to understand the proper role of intellectual standards in teaching and learning, as well as how to foster understanding of critical thinking standards in student thinking.
  • Colleges and universities committed to bringing critical thinking into the foundations of instruction across their respective institutions or within particular departments or courses.
  • Colleges and universities seeking accreditation or re-accreditation with emphasis on critical thinking (including critical reading and critical writing) through any accreditation body.
  • K-12 school districts and schools committed to infusing critical thinking within their curricula.
  • Those in government, business, and the military who seek to use and teach the Paul-Elder Approach in their work as trainers or consultants.
  • Instructors with existing knowledge of critical thinking who seek to more deeply command the concepts and principles found in a rich conception of it.

 

 





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CRITICAL THINKING IS AT RISK.

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  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

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