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The Thinker's Guide for students on how to study & learn a discipline using critical concepts & tools / by Richard Paul and Linda Elder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paul, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical thinking.
- Problem solving.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- How to study and learn a discipline
- Miniature guide to critical thinking.
- Place of Publication:
- Dillon Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.
- Contents:
- Laying the foundation: Ideas for becoming a master student
- How to study and learn a discipline
- How to learn with discipline
- How to identify an underlying idea for the subjects you study
- Understanding content through the thinking it requires: Key to deep learning
- How to identify the structure of a subject: Elements of thought
- How to figure out the form of thinking essential to courses or subjects
- How to think within the ideas of a subject
- How to analyze the logic of an article, essay, or chapter
- How to figure out the logic of a textbook
- How to understand ideas
- How to control (and not be controlled by) ideas
- How to understand reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking
- How to learn ideas from textbooks
- Following through: How good a student are you know? test yourself
- How to think through the defining traits of the disciplined mind
- How to understand intellectual standards
- How to question using intellectual standards
- How to evaluate an author's reasoning
- How to raise important questions within a subject
- How to distinguish one-system from competing-systems disciplines
- How to ask questions about fields of study
- How to ask questions about textbooks
- How to understand the logic of Biochemistry (an example)
- How to think biologically (an example)
- How to think Historically (an example)
- How to understand the logic of philosophy, sociology, and archaeology (three final examples)
- How to understand the role of questions in thinking and learning
- How to distinguish inert information and activated ignorance from activated knowledge
- Test to repeat in every class and subject.
- Notes:
- This is a companion to "The miniature guide to critical thinking" by Paul & Elder.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0944583113
- 9780944583111
- OCLC:
- 55690169
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