Linda Elder, Richard Paul

Broschiertes Buch

Critical Thinking

Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use

Beschreibung

This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It provides students with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face. Now available from Rowman & Littlefield, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use focuses on the most basic critical thinking concepts. It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life. An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing. Content highlights include: Think for Yourself activitiesDiscovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinkingLearning to formulate clear and substantive questionsMaking the design of a course work for youClose reading and substantive writingBecoming a fairminded thinker

Autor

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking for almost 25 years. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective. She has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Concise edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781538139509
• ISBN-10: 1538139502
• Artikelnr.: 62318176