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Summary:

"In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can do the help students develop this capacity. He outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative perspectives, and taking informed actions as a result. Written to address the broad range of disciplines, this book fosters a shared understanding of critical thinking and helps to various constituencies adapt general principles to specific disciplinary contexts"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• What is critical thinking
• Critical thinking across the disciplines
• How critical thinking is learned
• Introducing basic protocols of critical thinking
• Developing critical complexity: intermediate and advanced protocols
• Reading and writing critically
• Integrating critical thinking across the curriculum
• Making discussions critical
• Misunderstandings, challenges, and risks
• Modeling critical thinking.

Author/Creator:

Brookfield, Stephen , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Teaching for critical thinking: tools and techniques to help students question their assumptions [by Brookfield, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Teaching for critical thinking [by Brookfield, S.] (1st ed.; San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2012 — ISBN 9780470889343; LCCN 2011030030; OCLC Number 726822937)

Related Series:

Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Subjects:

Critical thinking

Critical thinking — Study and teaching

Psychology, Applied

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 280 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BF441 .B7915 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781118146705 (ebk.)
1118146700 (ebk.)
9781118146712 (ebk.)
1118146719 (ebk.)
9781118146729 (ebk.)
1118146727 (ebk.)
1283306492
9781283306492
9780470889343 (hardback) [Invalid]
0470889349 (hardback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Recorded Books: EB00058747

OCLC Numbers:

763245297