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Apr 8, 2019 · This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of students apprec...
This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of students appreciative of his unconventional yet powerful teaching methods who was controversially dismissed from his teaching duties in 2007.
Apr 18, 2013 · Norman Cornett, 62, has convinced the usually private novelist Rawi Hage to attend a third session in what Cornett calls dialogic learning. It is this approach that made Cornett, a PhD in religion from McGill, into a controversial professor—he was dismissed six years ago.
Feb 7, 2017 · Inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin’s “The Dialogic Imagination,” Cornett sought to create a teaching style that encouraged creativity, believing it to be what distinguishes humans from other species. “I don’t teach [students] for a grade or for a diploma, I teach them for life,” Cornett said.
Mar 17, 2011 · His unconventional teaching ethics, views on learning, and unprecedented dismissal were portrayed by filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin in the documentary Professor Norman Cornett: Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer? The film screened yesterday at Université de Montréal.
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Professor Norman Cornett will be present for the screening and after the screening, will engage in conversation with François Morelli. Morelli is a trans-disciplinary artist and educator, Professor in Studio Arts at Concordia University.