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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153082903321

Autore

Carter Carol

Titolo

Keys to thinking and learning : creating options and opportunities / / Carol J. Carter, Joyce Bishop, Sarah Kravits

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, Essex, England : , : Pearson, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-292-05228-7

Edizione

[Pearson new international edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Always Learning

Disciplina

370.152

Soggetti

Critical thinking - Study and teaching (Higher)

Study skills

Learning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Thinking Critically: Interacting With Information -- 2. Thinking Skills in Real Life: Problem Solving and Decision Making -- 3. Thinking Logically: Evaluating Fact and Opinion, Assumption, and Argument -- 4. Thinking About Your World: Recognizing Perspectives -- 5. Thinking Strategically: Setting Goals and Planning Your Time -- 6. Thinking About How You Learn: Learning Styles -- 7. Thinking in the Classroom: Reading, Note Taking, Memory, and Test Taking -- 8. Thinking About Expression: Listening, Communication, and Writing -- 9. Thinking Quantitatively: Math, Science, and Computers -- 10. Thinking for Life: Working Toward Your Personal Best -- Appendix: Learning Styles Assessments -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

  For any Study Skills or Student Success course with a critical thinking emphasis.  This text is designed to facilitate students' understanding of how they think and to enhance their power to apply their thinking ability. Through the application of critical thinking to study skills and life skills topics, readers will increase their ability to understand how their minds work and to maximize their achievement. Students will learn how to apply problem solving, decision making, and logical reasoning processes to all aspects of their lives.  Emphasis on personal action and responsibility encourages students to make well-considered



choices and to be responsible for the consequences, helping them to avoid unexamined responses to people and situations.  Critical thinking is consistently applied to college, career, and life situations. Through understanding how text topics apply to their own lives and goals, students can internalize the meaning of each thinking process.  The book emphasizes the combination of knowledge and action, helping students to realize that their knowledge is useless unless it is actively applied toward desired outcomes. Once students master the basic thinking skills presented in this book, they will be ready to be effective "knowledge-workers", meeting and exceeding the demands of their employers in the twenty-first century global economy.