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Critical Thinking and Language

By Moore Tim John, Moore, Tim John

Critical Thinking and Language Philosophy

Critical Thinking and Language

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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 concept of critical thinking is understood by academics and also how it is constructed discursively in the texts and practices they employ in their teaching. Critical thinking is one of the most widely discussed concepts in debates on university learning. For many, the idea of teaching students to be critical thinkers characterizes more than anything else the overriding purpose of 'higher education'. But whilst there is general agreement about its importance as an educational ideal, there is surprisingly little agreement about what the concept means exactly. Also at issue is how and what students need to be taught in order to be properly critical in their field. This searching monograph seeks answers to these important questions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2013-03-28
Publication Date:
2013-03-28
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0567157733
ISBN13:
9780567157737
Weight:
398 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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