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Learning to Think Things Through

Autor Gerald Nosich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2011

Cea de-a patra ediție a volumului Learning to Think Things Through reprezintă o revizuire amănunțită a textului original, autorul Gerald Nosich operând modificări și editări substanțiale pe aproape fiecare pagină pentru a eficientiza procesul de învățare. Observăm că această versiune pune un accent sporit pe transformarea studentului dintr-un receptor pasiv de informații într-un participant activ, capabil să analizeze logic orice subiect de studiu. Cititorii familiarizați cu Critical Writing de același autor vor aprecia modul în care acest volum extinde conceptele de bază, mutând focusul de la construcția argumentului scris către mecanismele fundamentale ale gândirii care preced scrierea.

Structura cursului este riguroasă și progresivă. Suntem de părere că organizarea pe capitole facilitează o înțelegere graduală: se începe cu definirea gândirii critice și identificarea impedimentelor cognitive, se continuă cu „mecanica” raționamentului în capitolul al doilea și se culminează cu aplicarea practică în diverse domenii academice. Un element distinctiv este introducerea metodei SEE-I (State, Elaborate, Exemplify, Illustrate), un instrument pragmatic pentru clarificarea ideilor complexe. Comparativ cu Critical Thinking 2E de David A Hunter, care se concentrează pe strategii formale de argumentare, lucrarea lui Nosich este mai integrată în experiența cotidiană și academică a studentului, oferind un model universal aplicabil atât în biologie, cât și în sociologie. Fiecare capitol se încheie cu o secțiune de rezultate („Outcomes”) și exerciții, transformând teoria într-un set de competențe verificabile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780137085149
ISBN-10: 0137085141
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:4th edition
Editura: Pearson Education

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Despre autor

Gerald Nosich este un expert recunoscut la nivel internațional în domeniul gândirii critice, fiind membru senior al Foundation for Critical Thinking. Cu o experiență vastă în pedagogie, acesta s-a specializat în integrarea gândirii critice în curriculumul universitar. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și Critical Writing, reflectă angajamentul său de a face procesele cognitive complexe accesibile studenților. Abordarea sa este practică și interdisciplinară, punând accent pe modul în care standardele intelectuale pot îmbunătăți calitatea vieții și a învățării în orice context academic.


Notă biografică

Dr. Gerald Nosich is a Professor at Buffalo State College and Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans. He has given more than 250 national and international workshops on all aspects of teaching for critical thinking. He has also worked for the U.S. Department of Education on a project for a National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, served as the Assistant Director at the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, and been featured as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia. On a more personal note, he has at times exercised and not exercised good judgment: he has ridden a motorcycle alone to the ziggurat of Ur in Iraq; has worked as an immigrant ditch-digger in Switzerland; been imprisoned by Communist authorities in Czechoslovakia; stowed away on a Sicilian ship to Algeria; sailed up the Nile with his family in a felucca; lived with Maasai warriors in central Africa; and traveled across the Sahara to Timbuktu. He is a Hurricane Katrina refugee and lives far from future hurricanes in Buffalo, New York.

Recenzii

"This text stacks op very well against its competition because it is concise. The difficulty in choosing texts on critical thinking is that they are either too complicated, do not offer enough coverage, or use a particular discipline to explicate critical thinking. What makes this text effective is that it is easy to work with and applicable to any and all disciplines." - Susan Quarrell, Lehman College

Cuprins

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a "Some Outcomes" section and Exercises.) Chapter 1. What Is Critical Thinking? Some Definitions of Critical Thinking. Some Prominent Features of Critical Thinking. Three Parts of Critical Thinking. What Critical Thinking Is Not. Impediments to Critical Thinking. Deeper, More Pervasive Impediments to Critical Thinking. How Deep Is Our Need for Critical Thinking? The Experience of Learning to Think Things Through. Getting Started: Clarifying with SEE-I. An Overview of the Book That Lies Ahead. Chapter 2. The Elements of Reasoning. The Nuts and Bolts of Critical Thinking. The Elements of Reasoning. Three Additional Elements of Reasoning. How to Analyze a Piece of Reasoning Using the Elements. Example: Thinking Through the Logic of Getting Married. Trusting the Process. Chapter 3. What Is Critical Thinking Within a Field or Discipline? Definitions and Parts of Critical Thinking: Applied to a Field. Thinking Biologically, Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Philosophically, Thinking Musically ! The Logic of the Field or Discipline. Learning the Vocabulary of the Discipline. Fundamental and Powerful Concepts. The Point of View of the Discipline. Impediments to Thinking Critically Within a Discipline. Trusting the Discipline. Chapter 4. Standards of Critical Thinking. Clearness. Accuracy. Importance, Relevance. Sufficiency. Depth and Breadth. Precision. Understanding and Internalizing Critical-Thinking Standards. Additional Critical-Thinking Standards. Non-Critical-Thinking Standards. Evaluating Around the Circle of Elements. Critical Reading. Chapter 5. Putting It All Together: Answering Critical-Thinking Questions. The Core Process of Critical Thinking. How Do You Fit into the Picture: Becoming a Critical Thinker. Thinking Through Important Critical-Thinking Questions. Critical Writing: Using the Core Process to Write a Paper Responses to Starred Exercises. Critical-Thinking responses are provided for exercise questions that can be generalized to thinking critically in any discipline.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Learning to Think Things Through isa concise, effective guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter. A combination of instruction and exercises shows readers how to use critical thinking to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information, to more fullyappreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, and to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole. The model of critical thinking is in terms of the elements of reasoning, standards, and critical thinking processes, and iswell-suitedto thinking through any problem or question. The 4th editionreflects streamlined writing, with changes and substantial edits on virtually every page."This text stacks op very well against its competition because it is concise.The difficulty in choosing texts on critical thinking is that they are either too complicated, do not offer enough coverage, or use a particular discipline to explicate critical thinking.What makes this text effective is that it is easy to work with and applicable to any and all disciplines."- Susan Quarrell, Lehman CollegeFor more information about the book including its support package, go to www.pearsonhighered.com/studentsuccessStart strong. Finish stronger.www.MyStudentSuccessLab.com "

Descriere

For Freshman Orientation or Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter at any educational level. This concise, effective guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter. Learning to Think Things Through presents a combination of instruction and exercises that shows the reader how to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information, use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, and to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole. The model of critical thinking (used throughout the book) is in terms of the elements of reasoning, standards, and critical thinking processes. This model is well-suited to thinking through any problem or question. The 4th edition reflects streamlined writing, with changes and substantial edits on virtually every page.