Research Catalog

Title

Re-thinking reason : new perspectives in critical thinking / edited by Kerry S. Walters.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Walters, Kerry S.

Description

xviii, 265 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Re-Thinking Reason is an invaluable resource tool, research guide, and supplemental textbook, for educators across the disciplines who are concerned with incorporating thinking skills instruction in their classes".

Series Statement

SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform

Uniform Title

Teacher empowerment and school reform

Subject

• Critical thinking > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Reasoning > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Kritisches Denken
• Kritisch denken

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : beyond logicism in critical thinking / Kerry S. Walters -- Teaching two kinds of thinking by teaching writing / Peter Elbow -- On critical thinking and connected knowing / Blythe McVicker Clinchy -- Educating for empathy, reason, and imagination / Delores Gallo -- Critical thinking, rationality, and the vulcanization of students / Kerry S. Walters -- Toward a gender-sensitive ideal of critical thinking : a feminist poetic / Anne M. Phelan and James W. Garrison -- Critical thinking and the "trivial pursuit" theory of knowledge / John E. McPeck -- Why two heads are better than one : philosophical and pedagogical implications of a social view of critical thinking / Connie Missimer -- Community and neutrality in critical thought : a nonobjective view on the conduct and teaching of critical thinking / Karl Hostetler -- Critical thinking and feminism / Karen J. Warren -- Teaching critical thinking in the strong sense : a focus on self-deception, world views, and a dialectical mode of analysis / Richard W. Paul -- Toward a pedagogy of critical thinking / Henry A. Giroux -- Teaching intellectual autonomy : the failure of the critical thinking movement / Laura Duhan Kaplan -- Critical thinking beyond reasoning : restoring virtue to thought / Thomas H. Warren -- Is critical thinking a technique, or a means of enlightenment? / Lenore Langsdorf.

ISBN

• 0791420957
• 9780791420959
• 0791420965
• 9780791420966

LCCN

93042902

OCLC

• ocm29478500
• 29478500
• SCSB-2031134

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library