Critical Thinking Now

Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms around the World

AvNancy Burkhalter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience through lecturing or multiple choice testing. It requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any student’s field, age, or level of education. Often not considered are those learners schooled in a non-Western culture and not proficient in the presenter’s language. These audiences can create invisible barriers to instruction. Without understanding these pitfalls, trainers invite frustration and failure, and risk wasting everyone’s time and money because they were unaware any problem existed. The book addresses these linguistic, cultural, and cognitive obstacles and suggests several solutions, whether you teach these students on your home turf or theirs.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-08
Mått:162 x 237 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:122
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475827507

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Nancy Burkhalter, PhD, is the author of many scholarly articles about the cognitive processes of writing and teaching critical thinking. Trained as a linguist, educator, and writer, she teaches academic writing to international students at Seattle University.

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As someone who has taught in both Singapore and China, I think it is imperative for instructors to become familiar with non-Western teaching methods, especially since more and more foreign students are enrolling in American institutions of higher learning. Dr. Burkhalter’s insights on this topic are invaluable for the instructor with international students as well as any teacher interested in improving his or her teaching.

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Foreword: Michelle Foshee, University of WashingtonPreface: Why I Wrote This BookAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: How Culture Colors Cognition Chapter 2: What is Critical Thinking?Chapter 3: The Critical Thinking Classroom Chapter 4: Assessing Critical ThinkingChapter 5: Teaching Critical Thinking in Other Cultures ConclusionAppendicesAppendix 1: Curriculum for Teaching Persuasive Essays to Elementary School ChildrenAppendix 2: Bloom’s Taxonomy Action VerbsAppendix 3: To the Moon! Appendix 4: Annotated ResourcesReferencesAbout the AuthorIndex