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Post by Prof. Aleksander Chonevski
Critical Thinking Students Tour the Stunning Wynwood Walls
March 4, 2019, Miramar, FL- Prof. Aleksander Chonevski, took his students enrolled in the Critical Thinking course on a tour to the Wynwood Walls. He wrote the letter below to his students:
Dear United PHI 225 Critical Thinking students,
I would like to share a photo we took together when we experienced the Wynwood Walls today. Thanks to all of you for attending the short class. I appreciated your curiosity and your many positive questions. You may ask why we chose this art-based lifestyle modern-contemporary presentation and how it integrates with our Critical Thinking?
Shaffee (2019) in Thinking Critically, reminds us to predict and then achieve our goals. We are becoming effective decision makers in our controversial complex world with an organized fashion in becoming powerful problem solvers. We have the chance to became familiar in a world that is part of the performing arts, the greatest worldwide Art Basel cultural festival, that is close to our community, and exposing student’s hearts, souls, beliefs, life-stories, anecdotes, and metaphors in the free world and in our world where each individual builds. You are part of that as well.
In learning how to understand this concept at this moment, all of you can now understand other languages, other thoughts, and different ways of thinking. Do not forget that we are looking at the same figure/picture with the different lenses, developing different ideas. Each of us connects with different stories and to understand the world in such complex way, you have learned what is valid and what is sound (your midterm test), what is inductive and deductive (again). Your arguments support your ideas, (bravo for all of you who brought us different ideas) via concepts and support your beliefs; however, this doesn’t mean that you are right or wrong. Eventually, this will become your verdict. In this critical process, your verdict must be proven by your individual abilities to enlighten your career path just as the murals on the Wynwood Walls.
Even though this trip was short, I feel that all of you received excellent benefits. Just look at your faces in the picture and note that you are happy and smiling.
I would like to extend a special thank you to our visitor, Photographer Vanoti (who came to share his experience as an artistic photographer with us).
I apologize that the exhibit was closed but I found that this trip was extremely productive as we saw many works of arts while walking around the block.
Aleksandar Chonevski, Ph.D. Student,
Researcher, Lecturer, & Institutional
Outreach Advisor
