suggested revisions (Glen & Ruth)

Re: suggested revisions (Glen & Ruth)

by Heather Fitzgerald -
Number of replies: 0

I don't seem to have permission to add a new discussion topic, so I'll just add my thoughts here. I will confess to finding Vision Statements difficult as a genre--they are always so necessarily vague and aspirational that it is difficult to see how the vision will be realized.

But given that part of the purpose of a Vision statement is to focus and motivate, I might consider adding, perhaps in point 1, something about critical thinking. Or about how we want our students to be able to critically question or interrogate received knowledge. Maybe this point seems particularly critical now, in this "post-truth" era. But I think part of what we are trying to do is to challenge students to critically assess and challenge what they have always known, to encourage them to have a broader, deeper, different, etc. perspective on the communities they engage with and the wider world.