Teaching Critical Thinking to Teenagers: How Kids Can Be Street Smart about AI, Algorithms, Fake News and Social Media [Paperback]

?Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Western History of Critical Thinking Timeline

3. Neurology and Critical Thinking

4. Why Critical Thinking is Hard to Teach

5. A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to Teenagers

6. Respect for Self

7. Respect for Reasons

8. Respect for Difference

9. Respect for Change

10. The Role of Dialogue

Index

There is a pressing need for educators, researchers, parents, students and policy makers to understand Critical Thinking and why developing it is an urgent priority. This very timely book expertly addresses this need. It is comprehensive, providing a history of our understanding, as well as evidence from neuro, psychological and educational sciences. What is impressive is how the complexity of developing the cognitive and social and emotional skills in classrooms is explained, overcoming risks such as low expectations, and the role of rich dialogue.  It is a major contribution.

Professor Stuart McNaughton, University of Auckland, New Zealand

This book presents itself as a guide for all educators, teachers and parents, to empower teenagers mastering critical thinking. It draws on experiments carried out with teenagers and on advances in research, particularly in cognitive science, as well as on seminal texts, including critical theories, promoting an interdisciplinary approach of critical thinking.

As Maree Davies says, when critical thinking was introduced into the education system, broader contextual factors of critical thinking, such as moral beliefs, personal experiences or thoughts on democracy, had been lost because of educational policies and research which always lã‚