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Critical Thinking and Learning An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers

Edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Danny Weil

ISBN: 0-313-32389-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32389-8

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544 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 4/30/2004

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £76.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004

Description: The editors of this book employ social, cognitive, linguistic, and political theoretical innovations to develop a new conception of critical thinking. They examine how such a construct might be taught in a variety of social settings and disciplines. Using a host of previously neglected perspectives—sociocognition, issues of political economy, complexity theory, and critical theoretical notions of epistemology and power theory—the editors and authors present a conceptually sophisticated yet accessible compendium on critical thinking.

The introduction guides readers through the reconceptualization process. Specific entries focus on particular dimensions of the challenges to old-style critical thinking. In this context, readers can choose entries that discuss various means of engaging students in the critical complex perspective of critical thinking. The encyclopedia is aware of both theoretical concerns and the everyday realities of schooling in the 21st century. As such, it rounded in a respectful view of teachers that assumes they are capable of levels of expertise unacknowledged by many contemporary articulations of school reform. The educational, cognitive, and professional vision developed in the encyclopedia offers a profound alternative to the top-down impositional models now sweeping the nation's school districts.

Table of Contents:

Preface
List of Contributors
Into the Great Wide Open: Introducing Critical Thinking
Art
Assumptions
Bilingual Education
Bloom's Taxonomy
Childhood and Adolescence
Cultural Studies
Curriculum
Democracy
Diversity
Educational Psychology
Educational Relevance
Empowerment
Epistemology
Feminism
Hermeneutics
Identity
Ideology
Journal Writing
Justice
Language Arts
Literacy
Mass Media
Mathematics
Organizational Change
Philosophy
Queer Studies
Race and Racism
Scholar Practitioners
Science
Sexism
Social Studies
Standards
Teaching and Learning
Terrorism
Textbooks
Theory
Thinking Skills
Values
Work
Xenophobia
Bibliography
Index

About the Author: JOE L. KINCHELOE is Professor of Education, City University of New York Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

DANNY WEIL is an independent scholar and consults nationally to many school districts.

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