Developing Critical Thinking: From Theory to Classroom Practice

✍ Scribed by Fernando Naiditch (editor)

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critical thinking requires a deep understanding of the topic at hand and the ability to look at content from diverse, and often unfamiliar, perspectives. Critical thinkers engage with material in innovative and creative ways to analyze, synthesize and assess it in order to reach their own informed conclusions. Developing Critical Thinking: From Theory to Classroom Practice invites readers to revisit their pedagogy to promote this type of inquiry. Scholars and practitioners from several content areas introduce several examples of instructional strategies, classroom practices, and projects at multiple grade levels. Their experiences come together to highlight practical ways to foster students' critical thinking skills and encourage them to engage in learning in new ways.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking • Fernando Naiditch
1 Understanding Critical Thinking: What Is It? Can We Teach It? How Do We Learn It? • Fernando Naiditch
2 Philosophy for Children and Critical Thinking: Creating a Space for Children to Think in a Kindergarten Classroom • Olivier Michaud
3 Critical Thinking in Action: A Collaborative Early Childhood Approach to Curriculum Design • Elizabeth Quintero
4 Promoting Respect through Collaboration: A School Responds to Bullying by Engaging the Community • Jean Ann B. Slusarczyk and Lucia Villaluz
5 Co-Construction as a Critical Approach to Mathematics Education • Mark Francis Russo
6 Critical Pedagogy and the Teaching of Reading for Social Action • Fernando Naiditch
7 Think Critically and Act Collaboratively: A Critical Framework for Teaching Students with Special Needs • Mark Alter and Joan Rosenberg
8 Creativity and Motivation in the Teaching and Learning Process • Bettina Steren dos Santos, Carla Spagnolo,and Caroline Buker
9 Critical Second Language Pedagogy: Lessons Learned from Teaching Students in Poverty • Fernando Naiditch
Afterword: Encouraging Teachers’ Growth and Development Using Practitioner Research • Kathryn Herr
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