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Education for thinking / Deanna Kuhn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuhn, Deanna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thought and thinking--Study and teaching.
- Thought and thinking.
- Inquiry-based learning.
- Critical thinking in children.
- Education--Aims and objectives.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What do we want schools to accomplish? The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Why Go to School?
- Chapter 2. What Are We Doing Here?
- Part II. Inquiry
- Chapter 3. Learning to Learn
- Chapter 4. The Skills of Inquiry
- Chapter 5. Developing Inquiry Skills
- Part III. Argument
- Chapter 6. Why Argue?
- Chapter 7. The Skills of Argument
- Chapter 8. Developing Argument Skills
- Part IV. Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Becoming Educated
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674039797
- 0674039793
- OCLC:
- 436295937
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