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Title Re-thinking reason : new perspectives in critical thinking / edited by Kerry S. Walters
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1994]
©1994
Table of Contents
 Foreword: Critical Thinking as a Political Project / Peter L. McLaren 
 Acknowledgments 
 Introduction: Beyond Logicism in Critical Thinking / Kerry S. Walters1
1Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing / Peter Elbow25
2On Critical Thinking and Connected Knowing / Blythe McVicker Clinchy33
3Educating for Empathy, Reason, and Imagination / Delores Gallo43
4Critical Thinking, Rationality, and the Vulcanization of Students / Kent S. Walters61
5Toward a Gender-Sensitive Ideal of Critical Thinking: A Feminist Poetic / Anne M. Phelan, James W. Garrison81
6Critical Thinking and the "Trivial Pursuit" Theory of Knowledge / John E. McPeck101
7Why Two Heads Are Better Than One: Philosophical and Pedagogical Implications of a Social View of Critical Thinking / Connie Missimer119
8Community and Neutrality in Critical Thought: A Nonobjectivist View on the Conduct and Teaching of Critical Thinking / Karl Hostetler135
9Critical Thinking and Feminism / Karen J. Warren155
10Teaching Critical Thinking in the Strong Sense: A Focus on Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis / Richard W. Paul181
11Toward a Pedagogy of Critical Thinking / Henry A. Giroux199
12Teaching Intellectual Autonomy: The Failure of the Critical Thinking Movement / Laura Duhan Kaplan205
13Critical Thinking Beyond Reasoning: Restoring Virtue to Thought / Thomas H. Warren221
14Is Critical Thinking a Technique, or a Means of Enlightenment? / Lenore Langsdorf233
 Contributors257
 Index263

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Description xviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform
Teacher empowerment and school reform.
Contents 10. Teaching Critical Thinking in the Strong Sense: A Focus on Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis / Richard W. Paul -- 11. Toward a Pedagogy of Critical Thinking / Henry A. Giroux -- 12. Teaching Intellectual Autonomy: The Failure of the Critical Thinking Movement / Laura Duhan Kaplan -- 13. Critical Thinking Beyond Reasoning: Restoring Virtue to Thought / Thomas H. Warren -- 14. Is Critical Thinking a Technique, or a Means of Enlightenment? / Lenore Langsdorf
Foreword: Critical Thinking as a Political Project / Peter L. McLaren -- Introduction: Beyond Logicism in Critical Thinking / Kerry S. Walters -- 1. Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing / Peter Elbow -- 2. On Critical Thinking and Connected Knowing / Blythe McVicker Clinchy -- 3. Educating for Empathy, Reason, and Imagination / Delores Gallo -- 4. Critical Thinking, Rationality, and the Vulcanization of Students / Kent S. Walters -- 5. Toward a Gender-Sensitive Ideal of Critical Thinking: A Feminist Poetic / Anne M. Phelan and James W. Garrison -- 6. Critical Thinking and the "Trivial Pursuit" Theory of Knowledge / John E. McPeck -- 7. Why Two Heads Are Better Than One: Philosophical and Pedagogical Implications of a Social View of Critical Thinking / Connie Missimer -- 8. Community and Neutrality in Critical Thought: A Nonobjectivist View on the Conduct and Teaching of Critical Thinking / Karl Hostetler -- 9. Critical Thinking and Feminism / Karen J. Warren
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Reasoning -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Author Walters, Kerry S.
LC no. 93042902
ISBN 0791420957 (alk. paper)
0791420965 (paperback: alk. paper)