Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking Across the Curriculum: Defining “Critical” in the 21st Century
The Consortium for Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking
6th Annual Conference October 19, 2018
Berkeley College, New York, NY
The deadline for proposals has been extended to July 30, 2018
The objective of our 2018 conference is an investigation of the term “critical” within the context of reading,writing, thinking, and instruction. We will contemplate the meaning and framing of “critical” as we move from the 20th century into the 21st, an era marked by an eroding valuation of authority, truncated content, and propagation of misinformation. We hope to address what critical thinking means, what it replaces or is replaced by, how we use the term, and how it encodes and is already encoded in our minds, practices, and pedagogies.
The process of critical thinking promotes active suspicion of authority. How should higher education uphold and stimulate the democratic ideology of critical thinking, engage in intellectual freedom, and also yet function as a gatekeeper against misinformation and irrationality?
We invite proposals for papers, presentations, and round table discussions on pedagogical approaches involving critical thinking in reference to politics, culture, sociology, philosophy, etc., and, in particular, proposals from disciplines beyond traditional liberal arts faculty, such as business and professional studies, health… read more