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Building Our Best Future: Thinking Critically About Ourselves and Our World - Softcover

Kuhn, Deanna

 
9780999064986: Building Our Best Future: Thinking Critically About Ourselves and Our World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0999064983 ISBN 13: 9780999064986
Publisher: Wessex, Inc., 2017

Synopsis

Building Our Best Future by Deanna Kuhn (author of Education for Thinking, Harvard University Press) offers a text written directly to middle and secondary students. It engages them in a method of well-documented effectiveness, using peer dialog to develop verbal and written skills of argument and critical thinking. Simultaneously it engages them in evidence-based decision making regarding 44 topics about their personal futures, the futures of their communities, of their nation, and their world. Provided for each topic is a comprehensive body of factual knowledge, in simple Q&A format, all with further sources. A Teachers Edition, providing further resources including assessment of student skill gains, is complimentary with 10 or more student copies.

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About the Author

Deanna Kuhn is Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her previous books include Education for Thinking (Harvard University Press), The Skills of Argument (Cambridge University Press) and Argue With Me (Wessex Press).

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Publisher
Wessex, Inc.
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0999064983
ISBN 13 
9780999064986
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
214