CALL for PAPERS
ASSOCIATION for INFORMAL LOGIC and CRITICAL THINKING [AILACT]
AILACT will convene a session of paper presentations and discussion during the APA Eastern Division Meeting in Atlanta, GA during 27-30 December 2012 to meet in the Marriott Atlanta Marquis.
While we are requesting papers that treat a broad range of topics relating to informal logic and critical thinking, as continuing focal points within the modern argumentation movement, we are especially interested this round to invite papers treating themes relating to the teaching and role/s of critical thinking in academia.
In recent months there has been an elevated discussion about the importance of cultivating critical thinking skills in core and general education curricula. These discussions have responded to some skepticism about teaching higher order critical thinking skills, that somehow doing so undermines authority and core social values. In this connection, we are asking for paper submissions treating such topics as (but not limited to) that might be thought to full (loosely) under the rubric of applied epistemology:
- Successful or unsuccessful pedagogic strategies for teaching CT skills
- Whether and in what ways CT skills are discipline specific
- Successful assessment practices and strategies for teaching CT as an institutional or discipline learning goal
- How student proficiencies with CT skills are measured
- What students say about their experiences with CT and the means used to gather information
- How CT skills and information literacy skills are similar or different; on the relationship between CR skills and IL skills in student learning
- Whether CT skills should be scaffolded throughout the undergraduate curriculum; how CT skills could effectively be scaffolded throughout the undergraduate curriculum
- Is teaching CT skills subversive?
- Other
Again, while we encourage persons to submit papers relating to teaching critical thinking, our call for papers is open to any topic within informal logic and critical thinking.
Papers should have a reading time of 25 minutes.
Deadline: 30 September 2012
Send completed paper with abstract as a pdf document attached to an email message to:
George Boger
Department of Philosophy
Canisius College
Buffalo, NY 14208-1098
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