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C&I LECTURE | Faculty
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Dangerous Ideas at the College of Education
Over this year, the faculty will plot a course of monthly conversations around the theme of dangerous ideas. Influenced by the book, “What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable,” by John Brockman, these conversations may shape the future of the College of Education.
When Galileo taught the theory of a heliocentric universe, his teachings enlightened a new world. When Newton conjectured on his theory of gravity, his lessons brought listeners to their knees. Throughout history, dangerous ideas have enabled powerful, positive change.
The College of Education faculty are world renowned scholars, researchers, and teachers, with the power to change history. In the past several years, they’ve developed a strategic plan and mission statement and forged into new research areas. Now they are exploring uncharted territory through a series of dialogues around the theme: “What is your dangerous idea about the future of education or about our college?”
Over this year, the faculty will plot a course of monthly conversations around the theme of dangerous ideas. Influenced by the book, “What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable,” byJohn Brockman, these conversations may shape the future of the College of Education.
“This year we hope to continue the conversations we have initiated around our long-term goals and vision for the college fully cognizant of the context of this particular historical moment for our field and of the unique features of our region and state,” writes faculty chair Philip Bell. “We have already made considerable progress in this regard through conversations on promising areas of research in our field and grand challenges for education.”
From college organization and procedures to new programmatic directions or the purpose of education and renewing professional, research/scholarship, or doctoral programs, the categories span a range of possible topics.
“Dangerous ideas can be focused on different aspects of our work, might be dangerous in different ways, and might be conjectural,” Philip Bell recently wrote the College of Education faculty listserv. “Framing a dangerous idea doesn't mean you necessarily endorse it yourself, but that it is one we should consider for some other reason…We only ask that you focus on dangerous ideas that have some likelihood of being productive for the college to consider.”
So keep your ear to the ground, listening for the rumblings of some dangerous ideas in the College of Education.
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