ABSTRACT

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.

part |15 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

The topic, the content, the writer, …

part 2|48 pages

Mapping the territory of critical thinking

chapter 2|16 pages

Critical thinking as an elusive concept

What critical thinking might be …

chapter 4|8 pages

Some of the broader issues of critical thinking

Standards, objectivity and the cultural basis

part 3|26 pages

The person as a critical thinker

chapter 6|14 pages

Academic assertiveness

Being appropriately assertive as a thinker

part 4|8 pages

Taking stock

chapter 7|6 pages

Critical thinking

A pause to take stock

part 5|24 pages

Epistemological development and depth in critical thinking

part 6|52 pages

Critical thinking and pedagogy

part 7|50 pages

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