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Teaching kids to think critically : effective problem-solving and better decisions / Clifton Chadwick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]Description: vii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781475810653
  • 1475810652
  • 9781475810660
  • 1475810660
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Learning and the structure of knowledge -- Developing skills for effective learning -- Metacognition: awareness for thinking -- Dispositions, motivation, attitudes : desire to think -- Developing and establishing intellectual standards for thinking -- Problem-solving skills -- High-quality critical thinking : wrapping up -- Notes -- About the author.
Summary: This book is based on a simple series of psychological concepts. While ability to think has always been important, the knowledge economy significantly increases the demand for higher order thinking and problem-solving abilities. Parents should take a much more active role in teaching their children to think. Early preschool years are critical because long-term attitudes and early strategies are learned then. Approaches and perspectives on learning to think can be clearly communicated to parents in ways which will make it possible for them to use the correct strategies to stimulate their students to think more clearly and critically. There are five elements involved in good, logical, critical, and creative thinking: 1. The skills involved in effective, efficient, and lasting learning, or commonly referred to as cognitive processing strategies; 2. The mastery of logic and structure of what is being learned; 3. Awareness of what one knows and does not know, and how one knows and how one thinks; 4. The standards or guidelines for the validity and reliability of what one knows, called intellectual standards; 5. The knowledge and skills involved in critical thinking and solving problems in different subjects or domains. - Publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 370.152 C432 Available 33111008096873
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is based on a simple series of psychological concepts. While ability to think has always been important, the knowledge economy significantly increases the demand for higher order thinking and problem-solving abilities. Parents should take a much more active role in teaching their children to think. Early preschool years are critical because long-term attitudes and early strategies are learned then. Approaches and perspectives on learning to think can be clearly communicated to parents in ways which will make it possible for them to use the correct strategies to stimulate their students to think more clearly and critically.



There are five elements involved in good, logical, critical, and creative thinking:

1. The skills involved in effective, efficient, and lasting learning, or commonly referred to as cognitive processing strategies

2. The mastery of logic and structure of what is being learned

3. Awareness of what one knows and does not know, and how one knows and how one thinks

4. The standards or guidelines for the validity and reliability of what one knows, called intellectual standards

5. The knowledge and skills involved in critical thinking and solving problems in different subjects or domains

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Learning and the structure of knowledge -- Developing skills for effective learning -- Metacognition: awareness for thinking -- Dispositions, motivation, attitudes : desire to think -- Developing and establishing intellectual standards for thinking -- Problem-solving skills -- High-quality critical thinking : wrapping up -- Notes -- About the author.

This book is based on a simple series of psychological concepts. While ability to think has always been important, the knowledge economy significantly increases the demand for higher order thinking and problem-solving abilities. Parents should take a much more active role in teaching their children to think. Early preschool years are critical because long-term attitudes and early strategies are learned then. Approaches and perspectives on learning to think can be clearly communicated to parents in ways which will make it possible for them to use the correct strategies to stimulate their students to think more clearly and critically. There are five elements involved in good, logical, critical, and creative thinking: 1. The skills involved in effective, efficient, and lasting learning, or commonly referred to as cognitive processing strategies; 2. The mastery of logic and structure of what is being learned; 3. Awareness of what one knows and does not know, and how one knows and how one thinks; 4. The standards or guidelines for the validity and reliability of what one knows, called intellectual standards; 5. The knowledge and skills involved in critical thinking and solving problems in different subjects or domains. - Publisher.

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