ABSTRACT
Based on extensive reasoning acquisition research, this volume provides theoretical and empirical considerations of the reasoning that occurs during the course of everyday personal and professional activities. Of particular interest is the text's focus on the question of how such reasoning takes place during school activities and how students acquire reasoning skills.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|150 pages
Contexts for Informal Reasoning
part II|159 pages
Modes and Models of Informal Reasoning
part III|175 pages
Informal Reasoning and Instruction