Source criticism on the schedule : teaching critical thinking / Anna Rosenqvist, Stefan Ekecrantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenqvist, Anna, author.

Ekecrantz, Stefan, author.

Series:

Springer texts in education

Standardized Title:

Källkritik på schemat. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Critical thinking--Study and teaching.

Critical thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 104 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from Swedish.

Summary:

This textbook is a practical and theoretical teacher guide on how to develop critical thinking and source criticism in contemporary elementary and secondary education, which requires students to develop their critical thinking from different perspectives as well as to develop their ability to critically evaluate sources they use for school-related work. What can a teacher do to support such development? The authors discuss several different perspectives on how one, as a teacher, can think about and work with source criticism together with the students. In the first part of the book a theoretical background and a principled discussion of critical thinking are discussed. This includes psychological and philosophical perspectives on source criticism. In the second part there are concrete teaching examples and tips on how to work with source criticism in both primary and secondary school. This book is a translation of an original Swedish edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction Part 1

What is Critical Thinking?

Between Blind Faith in Authority and Naive Scepticism

What is Being Critically Analysed?

Claims About "How" and "Why"

"Is that Really So?"

"How Do We Know-And with What Degree of Certainty?"

"Could It Be Any Other Way?"

Tendency Analysis

Lack of Information and Ignorance

Psychological Perspectives

Cognitive Dissonance and Critical Thinking

Selective Source Criticism-Confirmation and Myside Bias

Critical Thinking as a Quality

Philosophical Perspectives

Hume's Law-Facts and Values

Values First, Critical Thinking Training Second?

Does Critical Thinking Have an Ideological Colour?

Further Reading-Literature on Critical Thinking

References

2 Introduction Part 2

Making Source-Critical Arguments

Four Principles of Source Criticism

Who, What, How, When and Why?

Refer-Plagiarise

Information Search Tools

Copyright and Creative Commons

The Harvard System

News Consumption

What Will Be News?

Credibility of News

Objective/Subjective Source

Wikipedia as a Source of Information

How Does Wikipedia Work?

Images and Films-What I See, I See, Right?

YouTube as an Information Channel

Conspiracies and Alternative Facts

Conspiracy and Doomsday Theories

Fake News and Clickbait

Source Criticism in Several Curricula/Single Subjects

Historical Sources

Mathematical Sources

Search Engine Optimisation

What is Search Engine Optimisation?

Top Level Domain

Social Media

New Situations Require New Conversations

Safe Online and Social Communication

Final Words

Research Assignment in the Form of Project Work

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 31, 2022).

ISBN:

9783031143366

3031143361

OCLC:

1348286432

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.