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Standards of GoodWork: Its Nature, Its Nurture
A professional forum, with keynote lecture by
Howard Gardner, Ph.D.
Friday, October 30, 8:00-11:30 AM
Cornog Auditorium, New Trier High School/Northfield
7 Happ Rd., Northfield, 60093
audio of this
presentation (mp3 format, 1 hr length, 27 MB, will stream, or right-click
and "save as" to download)
We will post video links for this presentation when
available. Attendance was 185 persons.
How does one stay true to a moral, ethical career path when
operating in a world that is at times neither? Howard Gardner, Ph.D., the Hobbs
Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education, will discuss the renowned GoodWork®
Project (goodworkproject.org),
a large-scale collaboration of social scientists founded by Dr. Gardner and
others that seeks to identify, investigate and foster “good work,” work that is
excellent, ethical and
engaging.
Whether you work or
volunteer in education, business, government or the arts, Dr. Gardner’s
presentation of the GoodWork®
Project’s findings and
applications will offer valuable insight into how an individual can do good work
in an economy dominated by market forces and competition, especially among
younger professionals.
At 10:00 AM, following Dr. Gardner’s presentation and Q&A, Tom
Golebiewski, Ph.D., Chair, Social Work Dept. at New Trier High School, will lead
a community discussion about the implications, application and meaning that
GoodWork®
can have in a community and
school. The discussion will focus on deepening our understanding of Dr.
Gardner’s three E’s, and examining how the New Trier community can foster
intellectual character, citizenship, creativity and ethical responsibility as we
prepare our youth for their future.
Dr. Gardner is the Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero, and among
numerous honors, he received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. Since
the middle 1990s, in collaboration with psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Ph.D., and William Damon, Ph.D., (coming Feb. 23, 2010, sponsored by
FAN and the Glencoe PTO), Dr. Gardner has directed the GoodWork Project—a
study of work that is excellent, engaging, and ethical.
Sponsored by the Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township (FAN), New
Trier High School, the New Trier Community Response Network and MakeItBetter.net this is a must-see event. Admission is free and open to the
business, education and social service professionals. CPDUs will be available for education and
health professionals.
Other events with Howard Gardner focused
toward parents (October 29 and November 2).
Audio / video links:
The Three Pillars -
Education, Business, Community- Partnerships for the future. 2005
Frank Rich (New York Times)
and Howard Gardner talk about the lure of Wall Street. 2009
Web links:
Howard Gardner's own website:
http://www.howardgardner.com/index.html
The Goodwork Project - is a large scale effort to identify individuals and
institutions that exemplify good work—work that is excellent in quality,
socially responsible, and meaningful to its practitioners—and to determine how
best to increase the incidence of good work in our society.
http://www.goodworkproject.org/
(Here's the page with all his books at
Amazon.com
)
FAN Promotional Links:
GardnerForumFlier.pdf
GardnerForumRelease.pdf
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