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Professor Stephen Brookfield to speak on Quality Teaching

For Release Upon Receipt - October 1, 2009

St. Augustine


 

 

The University of the West Indies (UWI), in collaboration with Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited, is hosting a Premium Open Lecture themed “Reflective Practice: The Core of Quality Teaching”, presented by Dr Stephen Brookfield, Distinguished Professor, University of St Thomas, Minnesota. The open lecture will take place on Friday 2nd October at 5:30 p.m. at the Daaga Auditorium, UWI St Augustine. Guests are asked to be seated by 5:15 p.m. A business dress code is in effect. This event is free of charge, and is of particular interest to all teachers.

 

Stephen Brookfield is currently based at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis-St Paul, where he recently won the university’s Diversity Leadership Teaching & Research Award and also the John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar.

 

Now in its eleventh year, this annual event which is alternated with the Premium Teaching Awards has had the honour of featuring some top educators from universities around the world being invited to be guest lecturers.  Some of the distinguished speakers who accepted our invitation includes Dr. Patricia Cross Professor Emerita of Higher Education, University of Berkley, California;  Professor Dan Pratt, Professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies and the Acting Director of Clinical Educator Fellowships in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and Professor Bridget Brereton, Professor of History, The Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI St. Augustine, who was the first local lecturer to be featured at one of these events, just to name a few.  This event is managed by a committee lead by the Director of the University’s Instructional Development Unit, Dr. Anna May Edwards-Henry.

 

For more information, please contact the Instructional Development Unit (IDU) at (868) 663-9236 or 662-2002 Ext. 2611, or contact Guardian Life’s Corporate Communications Department at 632-5433 Ext. 2051 or 2058.

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About Stephen Brookfield

Stephen Brookfield is currently based at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis-St Paul, where he recently won the university’s Diversity Leadership Teaching & Research Award and also the John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar. Since beginning his teaching career in 1970, he has worked in Europe and North America, teaching in a variety of college settings. He as written twelve books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory, four of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996 and 2005). For more information, please click www.stephenbrookfield.com.

 

About UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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