Cara+Furman


 * CS18. Cara Furman ** – //Teaching for Imagination: Hayley’s Angel//

May 26 Thursday 2:45-3:30 PM HM 148

This presentation is premised on the belief that imagination allows teachers access to the mental worlds of students. It shares my journey as an elementary school teacher as I learned from student work the different ways people think and, in this imaginative leap, changed my philosophies on human capacity. Affiliation/Bio: Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Doctoral student, lecturer in Curriculum and Teaching. Cara Furman is a doctoral student in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia. A former public elementary school teacher she now teaches student teachers with Curriculum and Teaching. Her work focuses on the place of narrative and conversation in assessment, the modes in which people reflect and express, and the integration of philosophy and practice in teaching.