Teaching for critical thinking : tools and techniques to help students question their assumptions / Stephen D. Brookfield.

"In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen Brookfield builds on his last three decades of experience running workshops and teaching courses on critical thinking to explore how student learn to think this way, and what teachers can do the help students develop this capacity. He outlines a basic prot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brookfield, Stephen
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Critical thinking.
Critical thinking > Study and teaching.
Psychology, Applied.
Physical Description:xix, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • What is critical thinking?
  • Critical thinking across the disciplines
  • How critical thinking is learned
  • Introducing basic protocols of critical thinking
  • Developing critical complexity : intermediate and advanced protocols
  • Reading and writing critically
  • Integrated critical thinking across the curriculum
  • Making discussions critical
  • Misunderstandings, challenges, and risks
  • Modeling critical thinking.