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Dr. Brookfield to Present Seminar at BCC - September 16, 2008
Dr. Stephen Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, will hold a seminar at Berkshire Community College. The seminar, “Opening Minds: The Role of Discussion in Fostering Critical Thinking,” is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 24, from 3 to 5:30, in room 111 of the college’s Koussevitzky Arts Center. A reception will immediately follow the presentation.
Brookfield will explain how students can use discussion as a method to develop and enhance critical thinking in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to listen and interact with Dr. Brookfield, one of today’s leading thinkers in the field of adult education and critical reflection.
Since the beginning of his teaching career in 1970, Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written and edited nine books on adult learning, teaching and critical thinking, four of which have won the World Award for Literature in Adult Education. In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University System of New Hampshire for his contributions to understanding adult learning. During 2002 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and taught for 10 years at Columbia University.
The seminar, free and open to the public, is funded under a Title III Strengthening Institutions grant. |
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