Education and a civil society
Subtitle: teaching evidence-based decision making
By: Eamonn Callan ... [et al.]
Series: Occasional paper / American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Occasional paper (American academy of Arts and Sciences)
Publisher: American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Decision making; Critical thinking; Thought and thinking; Study and teaching; Teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Lee S. Shulman -- Chapter 1.; title: Decision making and its development /David N. Perkins -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Can reasoning be taught?  -- Richard E. Nisbett -- Chapter 3.; title: Is critical thinking a general talent?  -- Jerome Kagan -- Chapter 4.; title: Teaching evidence-based citizenship  -- Eamonn Callan -- Chapter 5.; title: Leraning to reason about evidence and explanations: promising directions in education  -- Tina Grotzer; title: Suggestions for further readings.