(eBook PDF) Critical Thinking in Young Minds (Routledge Revivals)

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Product details:

• ISBN: 9781138334564, 1138334561
• Author: Victor Quinn

How do you protect young minds from the everyday bombardment of “tabloid culture” – the malign cultural influences which are so prevalent in today’s society? Originally published in 1997, stimulating and actively developing children’s philosophical and critical thinking is one answer and an area in which Victor Quinn had enjoyed extraordinary success. Here he conveys to teachers, through successful lesson plans, some of the ideas and techniques that lie behind his achievements, helping them to succeed in this vital area of education. for teachers of early years, primary and early secondary school pupils.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

2 Learning about contradictions

3 What is the world?

4 Tales and the Shoplifting Tale

5 A lesson of questions

6 In praise of falsity

7 An experience of INSET

B Process

8 Educative questioning

9 The social intellectual virtues

10 Visualising problems and solutions

11 A quarrel and four arguments

12 Climate and pedagogy

13 Some theoretical perspectives

14 Quality assessment: quality display

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