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- Professor Norman Cornett is a specialist in theology and culture, particularly theology and the arts. He developed a method of education which he calls “dialogic” that uniquely engages students’ creativity.
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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...
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Mar 17, 2011 · McGill graduate Norman Cornett taught religious studies at the university for 15 years before he was fired without explanation in 2007. 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 ...
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.
Jan 28, 2014 · Seven years after being fired by McGill, Professor Norman Cornett returned to the university on Thursday evening—not to teach a class, but as the subject of a feature-length documentary film and a special guest of Cinema Politica.
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.
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.
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.
