Critical thinking and language the challenge of generic skills and disciplinary discourses Tim John Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Tim John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical thinking.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book clarifies the idea of critical thinking by investigating the 'critical' practices of academics across a range of disciplines. Drawing on key theorists - Wittgenstein, Geertz, Williams, Halliday - and using a 'textographic' approach, the book explores how the concept of critical thinking is understood by academics and also how it is constructed discursively in the texts and practices they employ in their teaching. Critical thinking is one of the most widely discussed concepts in debates on university learning. For many, the idea of teaching students to be critical thinkers characterizes more than anything else the overriding purpose of 'higher education'. But whilst there is general agreement about its importance as an educational ideal, there is surprisingly little agreement about what the concept means exactly. Also at issue is how and what students need to be taught in order to be properly critical in their field. This searching monograph seeks answers to these important questions.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Problem of Critical Thinking

2. Critical Thinking: History, Definitions, Issues

3. In Search of Critical Thinking

4. The Ineffability of Critical Thinking

5. Critical Thinking: The Disciplinary Dimension

6. Critical Thinking: So What Is It?

7. Conclusions & Implications for Teaching

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

1-4742-1181-X

1-4411-1735-0

OCLC:

1138646110