Description
| Product ID: | 9781538134948 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Thinker's Guide Library |
| Title: | The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools |
| Authors: | Author: Linda Elder, Richard Paul |
| Page Count: | 48 |
| Subjects: | Decision theory: general, Decision theory: general, Philosophy: logic, Education, Philosophy: logic, Education |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This popular pocket-size guide empowers readers with critical thinking tools based on the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder. The new edition of this bestselling volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library provides students, educators, and professionals with an authoritative problem-solving framework essential for every aspect of life. This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools distills the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder, targeting how to deconstruct thinking through the elements of reasoning and how to assess the quality of our thinking. The eighth edition of this guide further details the foundations of critical thinking and how they can be applied in instruction to improve teaching and learning at all levels; it also reveals how we can learn to identify and avoid egocentric and sociocentric thought, which lead to close-mindedness, self-deception, arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, selfishness, herd mentality, prejudice, and the like.With more than half a million copies sold, Richard Paul and Linda Elder’s bestselling book in the Thinker’s Guide Library is used in secondary and higher education courses and professional development seminars across the globe. In a world of conflicting information and clashing ideologies, this guide clears a path for advancing fairminded critical societies. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-09-20 |
