Critical Thinking for Better Learning (eBook)

New Insights from Cognitive Science

Carole Hamilton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
126 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2780-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Critical Thinking for Better Learning shifts the focus from teaching to learning and from presenting information to creating challenges that teach students how to think in your discipline. The shift derives from three new insights from cognitive science: that we think by analogy, that we learn best when we process clear, focused sources and develop our own theories about our findings, and that there are key threshold concepts that define the discipline and make it attractive to young practitioners. This book explains each of these insights in direct, clear language, with examples of how to implement them in your own classroom.

Autor

Carole L. Hamilton is a retired English teacher and debate coach who has researched teaching and learning for twenty years. Her focus has been in analogy-making, inductive lessons, and threshold concepts.

Inhalt

Chapter 3: Where to Focus: Identify Threshold Concepts ConclusionAppendix A: How People Learn Appendix B: Analogy as the Core of Cognition Appendix C: Student Retention with Schemas and Analogies Appendix D: Threshold Concepts Appendix E: Sample Threshold Concepts and SkillsAppendix F: Sample Student Challenges Appendix G: How to Assess Critical Thinking Recommended Reading/Viewing References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Curriculum • Education • education theory • High School • secondary education • Teaching methods
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2780-6 / 1475827806
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2780-4 / 9781475827804