Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

Nosich, Gerald M.

ISBN 10: 013114152X / ISBN 13: 9780131141520

Editore: Prentice Hall, 2004

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Titolo: Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to...

Casa editrice: Prentice Hall

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

Edizione: seconda edizione

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Riassunto:

For Freshman Orientation/Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter course at any educational level.

This short, inexpensive guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter course. A combination of instruction and exercises shows them how to use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole, and to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information.

L'autore:

Dr. Gerald Nosich is a Professor at the University of New Orleans. He has given more than 150 national and international workshops on all aspects of teaching for critical thinking. He's also worked for the U.S. Department of Education on a project for a National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, served as the Assistant Director at the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, and been featured as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

 

On a more personal note, he has at times exercised and not exercised good judgment: he has ridden a motorcycle to Baghdad (and to Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham); he has worked as an immigrant ditch-digger in Switzerland; been imprisoned by Communist authorities in Czechoslovakia; stowed away on a Sicilian ship to Algeria; sailed up the Nile with his family in a felucca; and lived with Maasai warriors in central Africa and in a Yurt in Mongolia. He currently lives in New Orleans with his son.