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Author(s): Jennifer Moon
ISBN(s): 9780415411790, 0415411793
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.02 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415411793

ISBN 13: 987-0415411790

Author: Jennifer Moon 

In this book, Jennifer Moon explores and clarifies critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process.

Key themes covered include:

  • different views of and approaches to critical thinking with an emphasis on a practical basis that can be translated into use in the classroom.
  • links between learning, thinking and writing
  • the place of critical thinking alongside other academic activities such as reflective learning and argument
  • critical thinking and assessment, class environments, staff knowledge and development, writing tasks and oral tasks.

Teachers in all disciplines in post-compulsory education will find this approach to defining and improving students’ critical thinking skills invaluable.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Introduction to the book

Chapter 1 Introduction: the topic, the content, the writer …

Part 2: Mapping the territory of critical thinking

Chapter 2 Critical thinking as an elusive concept: what critical thinking might be….

Chapter 3 Approaches to critical thinking in the literature

Chapter 4 Some of the broader issues of critical thinking – standards, objectivity and the cultural basis

Part 3: The person as a critical thinker

Chapter 5 The role of emotion, language and curiosity in critical thinking

Chapter 6 ‘Academic assertiveness’: being appropriately assertive as a thinker

Part 4 Taking Stock

Chapter 7 Critical thinking – a pause to take stock…..

Part 5 Epistemological development and depth in critical thinking

Chapter 8 Critical thinking and learners’ conceptions of knowledge

Chapter 9 Depth in critical thinking

Part 6 Critical thinking and pedagogy

Chapter 10 A defining statement on critical thinking and an introduction to the pedagogy Chapter 11 The pedagogy of critical thinking

Chapter 12 The Pedagogy of Academic Assertiveness

Part 7 Resources Section

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