Month: May 2014

The last session of the Bringing Critical Thinking Into Life in the Academia workshop was held at beautiful Suomenlinna on May 16th. The grande finale of the workshop was all about the presentations of the participants. We also had the honor to have Professor Paul Ilsley talking about critical pedagogy and examining the roles of visions and actions and discussing the group work.

Prof. Paul Ilsley and some of the participants of the workshop

Later on there will be writings by the participants and the organizing committee in the Wall section based on group work, lectures and discussions of the workshop.

Thank you all the participants, all the guest lecturers and the organization committee for a wonderful year full of discussions, critical debates and ideas about critical thinking!

A group presenting their dialogue about 'wellbeing'

Different perspectives for critical thinking and taking political and academic action will also be discussed in the AGORAs future events. .

More information on the workshop in the Teaching section.

We had the pleasure to have Professor Kathryn Ecclestone from University of Sheffield visiting JustEd in April 2014. Professor Ecclestone gave an open lecture at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences on April 10th and a speech at the AGORA opening next day on the emotional and therapeutic turn in education.

The lecture materials are now available in the PDF-file below.

Kathryn Ecclestone’s lecture in April 2014.