Critical thinking and language : the challenge of generic skills and disciplinary discourses
"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 con...
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London :
Continuum ,
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of 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 and implications for teaching