Brookfield Teaching for Critical Thinking

Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-14671-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

praise for previous books by stephen d. brookfield
"Award-winning author Stephen Brookfield offers insight,inspiration, and down-to-earth advice to all teachers in settingsas diverse as college, adult education, and secondaryschools--on how to thrive on the unpredictability of classroomlife."--Better Teaching
"The author [relates] some of his own personal experiences as aneducator in encouraging critical thinking. His insight and honestyin relating these experiences is valuable andinteresting."--CBE Report
"Brookfield's book will serve as an effective focus that canfacilitate faculty in thinking critically about their work, theircommunity, their relationships, not only individually butcollaboratively."--Teaching Sociology
"He offers clear, jargon-free, and unpretentious guidance."--Reference & Research Book News
"The author is so darned good at finding and highlighting thekey research." --Training
"Brookfield illustrates practically his major scholarly interestin this readable, innovative, and perceptive book on collegeteaching."--Choice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brookfield, Stephen D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
About the Author xvii
1 What Is Critical Thinking? 1
2 Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 27
3 How Critical Thinking Is Learned 53
4 Introducing Basic Protocols of Critical Thinking 77
5 Developing Critical Complexity: Intermediate and AdvancedProtocols 105
6 Reading and Writing Critically 129
7 Integrating Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum 155
8 Making Discussions Critical 179
9 Misunderstandings, Challenges, and Risks 205
10 Modeling Critical Thinking 233
References 261
Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen D. Brookfield is Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For forty years he has taught in the United States and abroad. A four-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching, including The Skillful Teacher and Developing Critical Thinkers.