GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS TO CRITICAL THINKING COMPETENCY STANDARDS (Thinker's Guide Library) - Softcover

Book 9 of 22: Thinker's Guide Library

Paul, Richard

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9780944583302: GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS TO CRITICAL THINKING COMPETENCY STANDARDS (Thinker's Guide Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 094458330X ISBN 13: 9780944583302
Publisher: Foundations of Critical Thinking, 2007

Synopsis

A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards introduces an authoritative assessment system to ensure successful and consistent integration of critical thinking skills in every type of educational program. The critical thinking competency standards articulated in this guide serve as a resource for teachers, curriculum designers, administrators and accrediting bodies.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

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About the Author

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and, through his work and legacy, remains a distinguished thinker in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essential to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking. Paul authored or coauthored more than two hundred articles and seven books on the critical thinking. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and internationally recognized authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for 25 years. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective and has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.

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Publisher
Foundations of Critical Thinking
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
094458330X
ISBN 13 
9780944583302
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
60
Rating
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