Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches

Author:   Robert J. Swartz ,  D.N. Perkins (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   24
ISBN:  

9781138648371


Pages:   266
Publication Date:   27 June 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.

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Author:   Robert J. Swartz ,  D.N. Perkins (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138648371


ISBN 10:   113864837
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   27 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword. Preface. 1. Promise and Possibilities 2. Thinking and Its Improvement 3. Kinds of Thinking 4. Infusing Teaching Thinking into Regular Subject-area Instruction 5. Choosing and Using Separate Instructional Programs Designed to Teach Thinking 6. Constructing a Program for Teaching Thinking in Classroom or School: Choices about Thinking Goals 7. How Teachers Relate to Teaching Thinking: Lesson Design and Instructional Strategies 8. Support Systems for Teachers and Schools to Teach Thinking Effectively 9. Approaches to Evaluation 10. Types of Tests.

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