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Critical Thinking and Learning An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers
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Joe L. Kincheloe, Danny Weil
Book Code: GR2389
ISBN: 0-313-32389-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32389-8
544 pages, n/a
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004
Reviews:
  • This essential addition to the discussion of critical thinking is better suited to the stacks than the reference collection. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.
    —Library Journal     July 2004
  • This work is so unique that librarians may have difficulty classifying it. Part encyclopedia, part handbook, and part essay collection, it drops the staid, often self-deceptive objective stance of most reference works, self-consciously but rationally attacking educational policies and practices now in favor....Readers will engage this challenging volume in various ways; librarians need not decide whether to buy it, but what sort of circulation to allow. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.
    —Choice     October 2004
  • If you need a book to implement critical thinking in the classroom, this is a resource you may want to consider for your professional library....[i]t contains a wealth of information.
    —Library Media Connection     March 2005
Description: The editors of this book employ social, cognitive, linguistic, and political theoretical innovations to develop a new conception of critical thinking. They examine how such a construct might be taught in a variety of social settings and disciplines. Using a host of previously neglected perspectives--sociocognition, issues of political economy, complexity theory, and critical theoretical notions of epistemology and power theory--the editors and authors present a conceptually sophisticated yet accessible compendium on critical thinking. The introduction guides readers through the reconceptualization process. Specific entries focus on particular dimensions of the challenges to old-style critical thinking. In this context, readers can choose entries that discuss various means of engaging students in the "critical complex perspective" of critical thinking. The encyclopedia is aware of both theoretical concerns and the everyday realities of schooling in the 21st century. As such, it rounded in a respectful view of teachers that assumes they are capable of levels of expertise unacknowledged by many contemporary articulations of school reform. The educational, cognitive, and professional vision developed in the encyclopedia offers a profound alternative to the top-down impositional models now sweeping the nation's school districts.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Into the Great Wide Open: Introducing Critical Thinking
  • Art
  • Assumptions
  • Bilingual Education
  • Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Childhood and Adolescence
  • Cultural Studies
  • Curriculum
  • Democracy
  • Diversity
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Relevance
  • Empowerment
  • Epistemology
  • Feminism
  • Hermeneutics
  • Identity
  • Ideology
  • Journal Writing
  • Justice
  • Language Arts
  • Literacy
  • Mass Media
  • Mathematics
  • Organizational Change
  • Philosophy
  • Queer Studies
  • Race and Racism
  • Scholar Practitioners
  • Science
  • Sexism
  • Social Studies
  • Standards
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Terrorism
  • Textbooks
  • Theory
  • Thinking Skills
  • Values
  • Work
  • Xenophobia
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003052848
LCC Class: LB1590
Dewey Class: 370
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