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Workshops & seminars, Conferences & lectures

Teaching and Learning Winter Festival 2016: Relevant-Real World-Real Life


Date & time
Friday, February 5, 2016
9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Speaker(s)

Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, Provost and Vice-President

Cost

This event is free.

Contact

Joanne Rankin, Centre for Teaching and Learning
(514) 848-2424 ext. 2495

Where

Faubourg Building
1250 Guy
Room 620

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

A key goal of higher education should be to scaffold a deep appreciation that things are not always as they seem or what we are told they are, and that what we call obvious or even reality is in more often interpretation through a series of filters and lenses rather that objective fact. In this workshop, we will attempt to experience the power of demonstrations that lead to surprising, unexpected and counterintuitive realizations that should shake our beliefs in a firmly established reality. These epiphanies serve a double purpose: (1) they have a saliency that make them memorable moments and therefore have strong pedagogical impact and (2) they bring about a new way of looking at both specific issues and the world as a whole that makes one wary of the obvious, precludes blind acceptance of received ideas or second-hand thoughts, and in the best of cases fosters truly conscious thinking and living.

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