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127Teaching Critical Thinking in the "Strong" Sense: A Focus On Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis
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56Reflections on the Nature of Critical Thinking, Its History, Politics, and Barriers and on Its Status across the College/University Curriculum Part IInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 26 (3): 5-24. 2011.This paper is a response to INQUIRY editor Frank Fair’s invitation to me to write a reflective piece that sheds light on my involvement in the field of Critical Thinking Studies . My response is in two parts. The two parts together might be called “Reflections on the nature of critical thinking and on its status across the college/university curriculum.” The parts together have been written with a long term and large-scale end in view. If successful the two parts will shed light on why the criti…Read more
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54Critical thinking in North America: A new theory of knowledge, learning, and literacy (review)Argumentation 3 (2): 197-235. 1989.The pace of change in the world is accelerating, yet educational institutions have not kept pace. Indeed, schools have historically been the most static of social institutions, uncritically passing down from generation to generation outmoded didactic, lecture-and-drill-based, models of instruction. Predictable results follow. Students, on the whole, do not learn how to work by, or think for, themselves. They do not learn how to gather, analyze, synthesize and assess information. They do not lear…Read more
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38Critical Thinking and the State of Education TodayInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 16 (2): 12-34. 1996.
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32Critical Thinking and General SemanticsInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 11 (2): 3-7. 1993.
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23Background logic, critical thinking, and irrational language gamesInformal Logic 7 (1). 1985.Background Logic, Critical Thinking, and Irrational Language Games.
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