Critical Thinking
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780262538282
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Critical thinking
First sentence: In a 2009 address focusing on national education policy, President Barack Obama issued this challenge: I'm calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.
Description: "Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed. Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including structured thinking, language skills, background knowledge, and information literacy, along with such necessary intellectual traits as intellectual humility, empathy, and open-mindedness. He discusses how research has defined critical thinking, how elements of critical thinking have been taught for centuries, and how educators can teach critical thinking skills now. Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it. Fortunately, critical thinking can be taught, practiced, and evaluated. This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality." --
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Series Forward; title: Preface; label: 1
title: The Genealogy of Critical Thinking; label: 2
title: Components of Critical Thinking; label: 3
title: Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Critical Thinking; label: 4
title: Where Do We Go from Here?; title: Glossary; title: Notes; title: Additional Resources; title: Index