Skeptical Thinking in the Classroom and its Impact - School of Arts ...

Source:
College Teaching, v53 n1 p41 Win 2005. 6 pp. (Peer Reviewed Journal)
ISSN:
8756-7555
Cognitive Psychology, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Beliefs, Thinking
Skills, Skill Development, Transfer of Training, Guidelines, Higher Education
This article draws six key lessons from cognitive science for teachers of critical
thinking. The lessons are: acquiring expertise in critical thinking is hard; practice
in critical-thinking skills themselves enhances skills; the transfer of skills must be
practiced; some theoretical knowledge is required; diagramming arguments
("argument mapping") promotes skill; and students are prone to belief
preservation. The article provides some guidelines for teaching practice in light of
these lessons.
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Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319
Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Web site:
http://www.heldref.org.
DEC2005
2005
EJ708705
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Title:
Problems with Two Standard Models for Teaching Critical Thinking
Author(s):
Nosich, Gerald M.
Source:
New Directions for Community Colleges, v2005 n130 p59-67 Sum 2005. 9 pp.
(Peer Reviewed Journal)
ISSN:
0194-3081
:
Intellectual Disciplines, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Role, Community
Colleges, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges
Two common models of teaching critical thinking in a discipline fail to do justice
to the essential role critical thinking plays in all learning or to its role in the