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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820226803321

Autore

Kuhn Deanna

Titolo

Education for thinking / / Deanna Kuhn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-03979-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

370.152

Soggetti

Thought and thinking - Study and teaching

Inquiry-based learning

Critical thinking in children

Education - Aims and objectives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why Go to School? -- Chapter 2. What Are We Doing Here? -- Part II. Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Learning to Learn -- Chapter 4. The Skills of Inquiry -- Chapter 5. Developing Inquiry Skills -- Part III. Argument -- Chapter 6. Why Argue? -- Chapter 7. The Skills of Argument -- Chapter 8. Developing Argument Skills -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Becoming Educated -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

What do we want schools to accomplish? The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond.