WACT’s mission is to:
I. Develop a stimulating and supportive community of individuals
interested critical thinking. Toward this end, WACT
1. Compiles a “human resource list”
where members who so desire can identify their teaching and research
interests.
2. Provides on-line and in-person
forums through which members can exchange ideas about pedagogical and
theoretical issues in critical thinking, form reading or discussion
groups, and initiate other activities.
II. Encourage the teaching of critical thinking. Toward this end,
WACT
1. Provides a venue through which
members can bring their collective wisdom to bear upon problems that arise
when teaching critical thinking.
2. Facilitates the sharing of
instructional resources (e.g. syllabi, lesson plans, and assessment
devices).
III. Nurture individual and collaborative research addressing
pedagogical or theoretical issues in critical thinking. Toward this end,
WACT
1. Enables members to identify and
contact colleagues who might be interested in providing informal peer
review of individual work or who might wish to collaborate on a joint
research project.
2. Encourages SoTL (Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning) projects related to critical thinking.
In the future, WACT’s
activities may expand to include offering courses or certification in
critical thinking, presenting public talks to the wider community,
presenting research teaching conferences, hosting conferences focusing on
the theory and instruction of critical thinking, and publishing an on-line
critical thinking journal.
