Author: Hans G. Furth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199839077
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings. The activities or 'games' described provide a general foundation which should help the child to deal successfully with specific academic subjects. With Additional Thoughts.
Author: Hans G. Furth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195019278
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings. The activities or 'games' described provide a general foundation which should help the child to deal successfully with specific academic subjects. With Additional Thoughts.
Author: Hans G. Furth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cognition in children
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Author: Hans Gerald Furth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child study
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Author: Connie S. Singh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780757537387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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All Virgie wants is to go to school with her brothers George, Will, Nelson, Val, and C. C. But they keep saying she's too little for the long, seven-mile walk, and that girls don't need school. Well, Virgie doesn't agree, and she's not gonna let anything stand in her way.
Author: Kulvarn Atwal
Publisher: John Catt Educational
ISBN: 9781912906024
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Engagement in research and professional growth activities, the thinking school creates a collaborative culture that permeates the entire learning community.
Author: Matthew Lipman
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439904183
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Lipman examines the impact his program has had and may yet have on the process of education in philosophy.
Author: Todd C. Riniolo
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615921796
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Todd Riniolo has written the perfect primer on critical thinking, not just for critical thinkers but for everyone. Not only should this book be the primary text of critical thinking courses throughout the land, but the chapters on how to think critically about political, economic, and social issues should be required reading for all members of Congress, along with the White House staff and the President himself. Riniolo has cracked open our skulls and revealed that what lies inside is a mass of irrational goo that must be reshaped through vigilance and education. This book is where it begins.-MICHAEL SHERMER, Publisher of Skeptic magazine; Monthly columnist for Scientific American; Author of Why People Believe Weird Things and Why Darwin MattersIn 1975, the Environmental Fund sponsored a full-page advertisement in leading newspapers, which predicted that the world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2,000, due to the assumed inability of world food production to keep pace with the increase in population. The statement was endorsed by some of the finest thinkers of the time-scientists, scholars, and other professionals who had spent their careers applying the principles of critical thinking to their chosen disciplines. Nonetheless, in this instance, they all failed to use the same rigor in assessing the probability of looming disaster and badly miscalculated.This is just one example of how even the best thinkers can sometimes go astray, and it illustrates how easily unconscious biases can undermine the critical thinking process. In this insightful analysis of the mental pitfalls that trip up even elite critical thinkers, psychologist Todd C. Riniolo makes a compelling case that under certain circumstances everyone is vulnerable to accepting erroneous beliefs.Riniolo begins by reviewing the hallmarks of critical thinking related to the evaluation of claims, such as the use of the double-blind procedure and the law of parsimony. He then provides an evolutionary framework and empirical supporting evidence from cognitive psychology to explain why being inconsistent in the use of critical thinking is part of our evolutionary heritage. Each of us possesses cognitive biases that make us prone to maintaining our current beliefs (both true and false). He concludes by focusing on a wide range of claims-environmental, political, economic, multicultural-to illustrate how in certain contexts we all are tempted to abandon critical thinking.Thoroughly researched yet written in a lively, witty style, this unique approach to critical thinking will interest students, teachers, and anyone who wishes to become a better thinker.Todd C. Riniolo (Grand Island, NY) is an associate professor of psychology at Medaille College. He has written many peer-reviewed articles in the psychological literature.
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Hodder Gibson
ISBN: 1471836509
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Continuing Professional Development series sets out to demystify professional development in education, and does so from a Scottish perspective. All books in the series approach their subject in an accessible manner that allows teachers and educators to perceive how continuing professional development can enhance job satisfaction - as well as making a real difference to the most important client group of all: the pupils and students in their care. In The Learning Classroom, Brian Boyd considers the large range of initiatives which have asked teachers to promote creativity, enterprise, citizenship (amongst others), as well as the growing interest in international ideas such as multiple intelligences, learning styles and teaching for understanding, to name but a few. The book looks at the key aspect of a number of these ideas as they impact on classrooms and describes how teachers can create a learning classroom which will incorporate the key elements of these initiatives.
