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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.
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.
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.
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.
