If you are interested in attending the symposium, please
complete the registration and send and/or bring to Academic Affairs.
Faculty
Resource Network National Symposium
New
Faces, New Expectations
November 16-17, 2012
New Orleans, LA
Hosted by Dillard University and Xavier University
Faculty members are also invited to a special workshop that will be convened
on Friday, November 16, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Kabacoff Room at the Hilton
Riverside New Orleans Hotel. The workshop, focusing on The Practice of
Critical and Creative Thinking, will be convened by Professor Robert
DiYanni of New York University, and is free to all symposium participants. A
description of this session is
included below.
This workshop is designed to introduce the intertwined concepts
of critical and creative thinking. It is premised on the notion that
critical and creative thinking ought to be married not divorced, explored and
taught together rather than riven apart. Without laboring too hard over
definitions, we will investigate aspects of thinking through a series of
hands-on exercises and activities—logical and lateral, critical and
creative—higher order thinking in practice.
We will engage with texts that cross the curriculum—including
verbal and visual and numerical examples. Our goal will be to think
together about thinking—how to improve our own higher order thinking
capacities, and how to help our students develop their critical and creative
thinking skills.
About Dr. DiYanni:
Dr. Robert DiYanni is senior lecturer in
expository writing and adjunct professor of humanities at New York University,
where he has worked for the past decade. He holds a B.A. in English from
Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the City
University of New York. He has taught writing, English and humanities at
Queens College (CUNY), Pace University, Harvard University, and NYU, where he
teaches courses in expository writing, literature, interdisciplinary humanities,
and critical/creative thinking. Dr. DiYanni has written and edited forty
books, most of them texts for college students. His most recent books
include Arts and Culture:An Introduction to the Humanities, The
Humanities Handbook, Da Vinci Thinking, and New Thinking.
In the works are two additional thinking books: Ways of Thinking and Disciplined
Thinking. He has given workshops and conference presentations for
secondary teachers and college professors in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe,
and East Asia. He also serves as director of arts and aesthetic education
for the Scarsdale (New York) public schools
On
Saturday, November 17, 2012, the Conference will be held at DU. Dr. Kimbrough will be welcoming the group on
Saturday.
I have attached the current short program which includes the
titles of presentations, a symposium description, and a registration form,
which may be returned to our office either electronically or by fax.
Thanks in advance for your very kind assistance - hoping to
receive some registrations soon.
Regards,
Anne
Anne L. Ward
Assistant Director
Office of Faculty Resources
Faculty Resource Network
New York University
194 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
P: 212.998.2351
F: 212.995.4101
E: anne.ward@nyu.edu
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