Building Our Best Future: Thinking Critically about Ourselves and Our World

Kuhn, Deanna

ISBN 10: 0999064983 / ISBN 13: 9780999064986

Published by Wessex, Inc., 2017

About this Item

214 pages. 10.79x8.39x0.51 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Our Best Future: Thinking Critically about Ourselves and Our World
• Publisher: Wessex, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999064983
• ISBN 13: 9780999064986
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

About this title

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.

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).