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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Critical Thinking ; 1.1 Introduction: Words and Worlds ; 1.2 Issues of Critical Thinking ; 1.3 The Critical Thinking Movement and its Critics ; 1.4 In Search of Critical Thinking: An Investigation ; Chapter 2 Critical Thinking: History, Definitions, Issues ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Critical Thinking and Education -- A Brief History ; 2.3 The Importance of Critical Thinking in Contemporary Education ; 2.4 Critical Thinking -- But What Is It? ; 2.5 Defining Critical Thinking |
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2.6 Definitions within the 'Critical Thinking Movement' 2.7 How General is Critical Thinking? ; 2.8 Critiquing Critical Thinking ; 2.9 An Alternative School of Thought -- Disciplinary Discourses ; 2.10 The Problem Restated ; Chapter 3 In Search of Critical Thinking ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Disciplines and Disciplinarity ; 3.3 The Disciplines Investigated ; 3.4 History, Philosophy, Literary/Cultural Studies ; 3.5 The Disciplines at University X ; 3.6 The Study's Participants ; 3.7 Brief Notes on Methods: Towards a Textography ; Chapter 4 The Ineffability of Critical Thinking ; 4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Use of the Terms 'Critical' and 'Critical Thinking' 4.3 What is Critical Thinking? -- Multiple Definitions ; 4.4 Conclusions ; Chapter 5 Critical Thinking: The Disciplinary Dimension; 5.1 Introduction to the Textual Analysis ; 5.2 Advice Protocol Documents in the Three Disciplines ; 5.3 Exercise Tasks in the Three Disciplines ; 5.4 Essay Tasks in the Three Disciplines ; Chapter 6 Critical Thinking: So What Is It? ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 Conceptions of Critical Thinking ; 6.3 Comparisons with The Critical Thinking Movement ; 6.4 Interfield Comparisons |
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6.5 Critical Thinking and Family Resemblances 6.6 Dimensions of Critical Thinking -- A Proposal ; 6.7 Conclusion ; Chapter 7 Conclusions and Implications for Teaching ; 7.1 Generic Skills and Disciplinary Discourses Revisited ; 7.2 An Alternative Pedagogy -- Transdisciplinarity ; 7.3 Further Research and Thoughts ; 7.4 Final Remarks: Critical Thinking Defined? ; Notes ; Chapter 2 ; Chapter 3 ; Chapter 7 ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Summary |
This book clarifies the idea of critical thinking by investigating the ''critical'' practices of academics across a range of disciplines. Drawing on key theorists - Wittgenstein, Geertz, Williams, Halliday - and using a ''textographic'' approach, the book explores how the concept of critical thinking is understood by academics and also how it is constructed discursively in the texts and practices they employ in their teaching. Critical thinking is one of the most widely discussed concepts in debates on university learning. For many, the idea of teaching students to be critical thinkers charaterizes more than anything else the overriding purpose of 'higher education'. But whilst there is general agreement about its importance as an educational ideal, there is surprisingly little agreement about what the concept means exactly. Also at issue is how and what students need to be taught in order to be properly critical in their field. This searching monograph seeks answers to these important questions |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 8, 2022) |
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Critical thinking.
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Education.
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Linguistics.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Critical thinking
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Kritisches Denken
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441117359 |
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1441117350 |
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9781441191397 |
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1441191399 |
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9781474211819 |
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147421181X |
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0567157733 |
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9780567157737 |
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