Author: John Chaffee
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date: 2012
Book Size: 16.40 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Thinking Critically

by John Chaffee, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, THINKING CRITICALLY teaches the fundamental thinking, reasoning, reading, and writing abilities that students need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The text begins with basic skills related to personal experience and then carefully progresses to th

Author: A. R. Codling
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2018-01-31
Book Size: 53.21 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Thinking Critically About Law

by A. R. Codling, Thinking Critically About Law Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Law book, So you’ve arrived at university, you’ve read the course handbook and you’re ready to learn the law. But is knowing the law enough to get you the very best marks? And what do your lecturers mean when they say you need to develop critical and analytical skills? When is it right to put your own views forward? What are examiners looking for when they give feedback to say that your work is too descriptive? This book explores what it means to think critically and offers practical tips and advice for students to develop the process, skill and ability of thinking critically while studying law. The book investigates the big questions such as: What is law? and What is ‘thinking critically’? How can I use critical thinking to get better grades in assessments? What is the role of critical thinking in the work place? These questions and more are explored in Thinking Critically About Law. Whether you have limited prior experience of critical thinking or are looking to improve your performance in assessments, this book is the ideal tool to help you enhance your capacity to question, challenge, reflect and problematize what you learn about the law throughout your studies and beyond.

Author: Jane Ogden
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2018-11-30
Book Size: 47.62 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Thinking Critically About Research

by Jane Ogden, Thinking Critically About Research Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Research book, We live in an age of unprecedented access to information. The last decade has seen an exponential growth in data and material available, often at the touch of a button. However, this has also made it harder to discern between fact and fiction. What is real and what is fake? What should we believe and what should we reject? In an environment of information overload, a distrust of experts, the circulation of misinformation and false facts, and public debates based upon poor evidence, Thinking Critically About Research comes at a vital juncture. The book is designed to help readers develop a critical understanding of evidence and the ways in which evidence is presented, and to challenge the information they receive in both academic and non-academic sources. The author presents a step-by-step approach with a focus on knowing methods, culminating in a bespoke ‘critical tool kit’ which offers a practical checklist designed to be used when carrying out research. Also containing learning features including tasks and worked examples, drawing on real research studies, this is an essential resource for students and researchers, and those putting research into practice, who want to have better critical thinking skills.

Author: Diane F. Halpern
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2013-01-11
Book Size: 77.42 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking

by Diane F. Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking book, A workbook for Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition by Diane F Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, Fourth Edition is filled with new exercises to reinforce learning and practice newly acquired skills. This workbook can be purchased in a student package with Thought & Knowledge or as a separate item.

Author: Jean Mercer
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date: 2019-02-12
Book Size: 66.91 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Thinking Critically About Child Development

by Jean Mercer, Thinking Critically About Child Development Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Child Development book, With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically. Author Jean Mercer and new co-authors Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use anecdotes to illustrate common errors of critical thinking and encourage students to consider evidence and logic relevant to everyday beliefs. New material in the Fourth Edition covers adolescence, adverse childhood experiences, genetics, LGBT issues for both parents and children, and other issues about sexuality, keeping readers up to date on the latest scholarship in the field. Also of Interest Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach, Second Edition: Chronologically organized, this book presents topics within the field of child development through unique and highly engaging Active Learning opportunities. Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, Third Edition: Topically organized, this book invites students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development.

Author: Lisa P. Kuh
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date: 2014-06-13
Book Size: 16.77 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Thinking Critically About Environments For Young Children

by Lisa P. Kuh, Thinking Critically About Environments For Young Children Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Environments For Young Children book, This comprehensive book will help early childhood practitioners consider the "why" and "how" of setting up classrooms and other learning spaces to create environments that are most conducive to child development. Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which enviroments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children. There are copious examples from practice, lessons learned, and illustrations and photographs of key aspects of the environments they discuss.

Author: Open University
Publisher:
Release Date: 2008-07-14
Book Size: 48.45 MB
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Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Thinking Critically

by Open University, Thinking Critically Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically book, To think critically, is to weigh up all sides of an argument and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. This is a skill that we use in many everyday decision making situations. This booklet shows how these skills can be transferred effectively to academic life. It explains why critical thinking is important, and contains advice on reading with a critical eye, writing with a critical voice and techniques to practice with others.There is an accompanying Skills for OU Study website http://www.open.ac.uk.skillsforstudy.If you are a current OU student please contact Student Services before ordering.

Author: Josina M. Makau
Publisher:
Release Date: 1990
Book Size: 29.63 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Reasoning And Communication

by Josina M. Makau, Reasoning And Communication Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Reasoning And Communication book,

Author: Nathan Nobis
Publisher: Open Philosophy Press
Release Date: 2019-06-19
Book Size: 29.95 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Thinking Critically About Abortion

by Nathan Nobis, Thinking Critically About Abortion Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Abortion book, This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading. From the Preface To many people, abortion is an issue for which discussions and debates are frustrating and fruitless: it seems like no progress will ever be made towards any understanding, much less resolution or even compromise. Judgments like these, however, are premature because some basic techniques from critical thinking, such as carefully defining words and testing definitions, stating the full structure of arguments so each step of the reasoning can be examined, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different explanations can help us make progress towards these goals. When emotions run high, we sometimes need to step back and use a passion for calm, cool, critical thinking. This helps us better understand the positions and arguments of people who see things differently from us, as well as our own positions and arguments. And we can use critical thinking skills help to try to figure out which positions are best, in terms of being supported by good arguments: after all, we might have much to learn from other people, sometimes that our own views should change, for the better. Here we use basic critical thinking skills to argue that abortion is typically not morally wrong. We begin with less morally-controversial claims: adults, children and babies are wrong to kill and wrong to kill, fundamentally, because they, we, are conscious, aware and have feelings. We argue that since early fetuses entirely lack these characteristics, they are not inherently wrong to kill and so most abortions are not morally wrong, since most abortions are done early in pregnancy, before consciousness and feeling develop in the fetus. Furthermore, since the right to life is not the right to someone else’s body, fetuses might not have the right to the pregnant woman’s body—which she has the right to—and so she has the right to not allow the fetus use of her body. This further justifies abortion, at least until technology allows for the removal of fetuses to other wombs. Since morally permissible actions should be legal, abortions should be legal: it is an injustice to criminalize actions that are not wrong. In the course of arguing for these claims, we: 1. discuss how to best define abortion; 2. dismiss many common “question-begging” arguments that merely assume their conclusions, instead of giving genuine reasons for them; 3. refute some often-heard “everyday arguments” about abortion, on all sides; 4. explain why the most influential philosophical arguments against abortion are unsuccessful; 5. provide some positive arguments that at least early abortions are not wrong; 6. briefly discuss the ethics and legality of later abortions, and more. This essay is not a “how to win an argument” piece or a tract or any kind of apologetics. It is not designed to help anyone “win” debates: everybody “wins” on this issue when we calmly and respectfully engage arguments with care, charity, honesty and humility. This book is merely a reasoned, systematic introduction to the issues that we hope models these skills and virtues. Its discussion should not be taken as absolute “proof” of anything: much more needs to be understood and carefully discussed—always.

Author: Thomas F. Wall
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Release Date: 2001
Book Size: 63.60 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Thinking Critically About Philosophical Problems

by Thomas F. Wall, Thinking Critically About Philosophical Problems Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thinking Critically About Philosophical Problems book, Cited by one reviewer as "a work of stunning originality," this new text presents philosophy both as a collection of fundamental problems and as a method to solve problems, the method of critical thinking. Students become active participants in doing philosophy, in using the method of philosophy as philosophers do when they are thinking well. The various parts of the text are organized to reflect a recurring pattern of critical thinking, and exercises are provided throughout the text to sharpen these thinking skills in the context of solving philosophical problems. In addition to addressing individual philosophical problems, this text also encourages students to integrate their solutions into a coherent worldview.

Author: Peyton Paxson
Publisher: Walch Publishing
Release Date: 2003
Book Size: 39.83 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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Media Literacy

by Peyton Paxson, Media Literacy Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Media Literacy book, Tunes into topics of special interest to students! Investigates the societal, cultural, and economic effects of the Internet Helps students become more informed and discerning Internet users Speaks to a variety of subject areas, including language arts and social studies A Center for Media Literacy Recommended Resource

Author: David A. Hunter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2013-07-09
Book Size: 16.75 MB
Book Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Practical Guide To Critical Thinking

by David A. Hunter, A Practical Guide To Critical Thinking Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download A Practical Guide To Critical Thinking book, A practical introduction to critical thinking across various disciplines Knowing how to think critically about what to believe and what to do is essential for success in both academic and professional environments. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking introduces readers to the concepts, methods, and standards for thinking critically about reasons and arguments in virtually any area of practice. While most literature on critical thinking focuses on its formal applications within philosophy, this book offers a broad conception of critical thinking and explores its practical relevance to conducting research across a wide variety of disciplines, including business, education, and the biological sciences. While the book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking, providing examples and illustrations from diverse subjects and fields of research, it also provides strategies to help readers identify the methods and standards that are characteristic of critical thinking in their chosen branches of learning, in their workplace, and in their own lives. The concept of an argument is extended beyond its philosophical roots to include experimentation, testing, measurement, policy development and assessment, and aesthetic appreciation as activities that require critical thinking. The logical, core concepts of critical thinking are presented in a rigorous yet informal way, with creative and practical strategies for defining, analyzing, and evaluating reasons and arguments wherever they are found. Each chapter ends with a "Mistakes to Avoid" section as well as a variety of exercises designed to help readers integrate and extend the chapter's lessons. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking is an excellent book for courses on critical thinking and logic at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also an appropriate reference for anyone with a general interest in critical thinking skills.