Critical Thinking An Exploration of Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

Key themes covered include:

• different views of and approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical basis that can be translated into use in the classroom.
• links between learning, thinking and writing
• the place of critical thinking alongside other academic activities such as reflective learning and argument
• critical thinking and assessment, class environments, staff knowledge and development, writing tasks and oral tasks.

Teachers in all disciplines in post-compulsory education will find this approach to defining and improving students critical thinking skills invaluable.

@contents:Preface

Part 1 Introduction to the book

Chapter 1 Introduction: the topic, the content, the writer &

Part 2: Mapping the territory of critical thinking

Chapter 2 Critical thinking as an elusive concept: what critical thinking might be&.

Chapter 3 Approaches to critical thinking in the literature

Chapter 4 Some of the broader issues of critical thinking  standards, objectivity and the cultural basis

Part 3: The person as a critical thinker

Chapter 5 The role of emotion, language and curiosity in critical thinking

Chapter 6 Academic assertiveness: being appropriately assertive as a thinker

Part 4 Taking Stock

Chapter 7 Critical thinking  a pause to take stock&..

Part 5 Epistemological development and depth in critical thinking

Chapter 8 Critical thinking and learners conceptions of knowledge

Chapter 9 Depth in critical thinking