Critical thinking
Subtitle: what every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing world
By: Richard W. Paul ; edited by Jane Willsen and A.J.A. Binker
Contributors: Willsen, Jane; Binker, A. J. A.
Edition: Revised third edition.
Publisher: Foundation for Critical Thinking
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Santa Rosa, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780944583081
Subjects: Critical thinking; Study and teaching; Thinking; Problem Solving; Pensamiento crítico; Enseñanza; Kritisches Denken
Description: Examines the theoretical, philosophical, educational & practical aspects. Special emphasis on education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-492) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: I. Overview: What critical thinking is and why it is essential; title: Accelerating change, the complexity of problems, and the quality of our thinking; title: Critical thinking: identifying the targets; title: The critical thinking movement in historical perspective; title: Pseudo critical thinking in the educational establishements; title: Critical thinking: basic questions and answers; title: The logic of creative and critical thinking; title: Critical thinking in North America; title: Why students; title: and teachers; title: don't reason well; title: II. Critical thinking in the strong sense; title: Critical thinking: fundamental to education for a free society; title: Critical thinking and the critical person; title: Critical thinking and the nature of prejudice; title: Critical thinking, human development, and rational productivity; title: Critical thinking: the background logic; title: III. The affective and ethical dimension; title: Ethics without indoctrination; title: Critical thinking, moral integrity, and citizenship teaching for the intellectual virtues; title: Dialogical thinking: critical thought essential to the acquisition of rational knowledge and passions; title: Power, vested interest, and prejudice: on the need for critical thinking in the ethics of social and economic development; title: IV. Contrasting viewpoints; title: McPeck's mistakes: why critical thinking applies across disciplines and domains; title: Bloom's taxonomy and critical thinking instruction: recall is not knowledge; title: Critical and cultural literacy: where E.D. Hirsch goes wrong; title: Critical thinking and general semantics: on the primacy of natural languages; title: The contribution of philosophy to thinking; title: Philosophy and cognitive psychology: contrasting assumptions; title: Appendices; title: A. Glossary: aguide to critical thinking terms and concepts; title: B. Recommended readings.