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Cultivating Judgement: A Sourcebook for Teaching Critical Thinking....
Cultivating Judgement A Sourcebook for Teaching Critical Thinking Author:John Nelson This fine sourcebook provides college and university teachers, across the curriculum, with specific classroom-tested activities and assignments to stimulate and develop student critical thinking. The book consists of fifty modules, each containing: A description of a critical thinking assignment, An explanation of the assignment's pur... more »poses and benefits, A discussion of ways to use or modify the assignment in the classroom, and Suggested related activities, including relevant bibliographical sources. Most modules were developed by the author; in other cases, the author shaped, refined, and expanded on material that has been developed and used by colleagues. Some modules are discipline-specific, some are suitable for a number of disciplines; and many can easily be modified for use in a wide variety of fields. The assignments vary in scope, difficulty and complexity. Some are deigned for introductory freshman courses, while others have been used in graduate courses but could be adapted for lower level courses. Each module stands alone, but the modules are loosely grouped into five sections: (1) Problems and Puzzles (2) Analyses and Critiques (3) Opinions, Decisions, Values (4) Projects, Experiments, Adventures (5) Student as Teacher, Teacher as Student. The sourcebook also includes an introductory chapter on the nature and importance of critical thinking, a cross-referencing of all activities by discipline, and a wide-ranging bibliography. Cultivating Judgment has been extensively tested in college classrooms, then revised, expanded and significantly improved. The author has conducted extensive research on the teaching of thinking skills, and discovered that discovered that no existing source filled the need for a book that spells out and demonstrates how to teach critical thinking in virtually any discipline, from liberal arts to more specialized career programs. You will find Cultivating Judgment to be an engaging book, and one that combines intellectual rigor with a playful, creative spirit ? and, one that can be used as a textbook in a general course on critical thinking, or as a resource for teachers across the curriculum!« less