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A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads

A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133911

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The history of education is also the history of short-term solutions to deep-seated educational problems. While programs like No Child Left Behind or Common Core Curriculum are well-intentioned, they result in intense fragmentation of energy and resources in schools. A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Educational Fads critiques many current educational trends, illuminating their underlying motivations and providing holistic, sustainable solutions. Teachers, school administrators, and policy makers will find this book an eye-opening overview of education trends and fads, and a refreshing outlook on future reform. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.


The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking

The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking
Author: Linda Elder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133768

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The Aspiring Thinker’s Guide to Critical Thinking introduces concepts and strategies for developing essential reasoning skills and intellectual character. As students advance in their academic studies and encounter new situations in their lives, they must learn to differentiate fact from fiction and make decisions based in good reasoning. They must learn to be clear, accurate, relevant, logical, and fair when expressing ideas. This book lays out a clear framework for guiding this development and encouraging lifelong intellectual curiosity. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards

A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133938

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A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards introduces an authoritative assessment system to ensure successful and consistent integration of critical thinking skills in every type of educational program. The critical thinking competency standards articulated in this guide serve as a resource for teachers, curriculum designers, administrators and accrediting bodies. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools

The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1538134950

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This popular pocket-size guide empowers readers with critical thinking tools based on the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder. The new edition of this bestselling volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library provides students, educators, and professionals with an authoritative problem-solving framework essential for every aspect of life.


The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking

The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133849

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The Thinker’s Guide to Scientific Thinking focuses on developing the intellectual skills inherent in the well-cultivated practice of every area of scientific research and study. It helps students and practicing scientists come to reason within the logic of science and to see the field as a cohesive whole. From astronomers to zoologists and physicists to chemists, skilled scientists use careful analysis to question data, test theories, draw logical conclusions, and propose feasible solutions. Students in science courses, and scientists themselves will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging framework of inquiry set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder in this guide. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133784

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In The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies. Independent of religious or cultural norms, ethical concepts promote sustainable advancement and offer a framework by which all people can not only coexist but prosper. Exploring the nature of ethical reasoning, the guide reveals the most common ways ethical reasoning becomes flawed and teaches readers how to avoid these flaws. It lays out the function of ethics and its main impediments, the social counterfeits of ethics, the elements of ethical reasoning, important ethical abilities and traits, a vocabulary of ethics, and intellectual standards essential to assessing ethical reasoning. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.


The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning

The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133792

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The Thinker’s Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering. Students and professionals across engineering will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging authoritative framework set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder. For engineers to properly reason through engineering projects requires strong analytic skills. The best engineers are clear about their purposes, gather sufficient information, and develop innovations. This requires critical reasoning and this guide offers tools essential to this process. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.


The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study & Learn a Discipline

The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study & Learn a Discipline
Author: Richard Paul
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133830

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This volume of the Thinker’s Guide Library presents critical thinking skills essential to mastering any area of study. Students are empowered to take ownership of their thinking and learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, and drawing upon reliable sources. The guide makes intellectual work more accessible, practical, and engaging.


The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies
Author: Linda Elder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1538133776

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The Thinker’s Guide to Fallacies introduces the concept of mental trickery and shows readers how to discern and see through forty-four different types of fallacies. Focusing on how human self-deception and manipulation lie behind fallacies, this guide builds reasoning skills and promotes fairminded, logical thought, discussions, and debate. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.