Thinking : the foundation of critical and creative learning in the classroom / Robert Boostrom.

By:

Boostrom, Robert E, 1949- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0807745693
9780807745694

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

370.152 22

LOC classification:

LB14.7 .B654 2005

Contents:

Foreword / Jonas F. Soltis -- 1. Categories of thinking -- 2. Arts and disciplines -- 3. The content of stories -- 4. Stories in context -- 5. The whole truth -- 6. Thinking for oneself.

Review: "What might a school that wholeheartedly values thinking look like? How can we encourage students to be active learners instead of passive recipients of knowledge? In this engaging book, Boostrom invites readers to think about the ways in which the practice of teaching unintentionally promotes nonthinking."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.

Foreword / Jonas F. Soltis -- 1. Categories of thinking -- 2. Arts and disciplines -- 3. The content of stories -- 4. Stories in context -- 5. The whole truth -- 6. Thinking for oneself.

"What might a school that wholeheartedly values thinking look like? How can we encourage students to be active learners instead of passive recipients of knowledge? In this engaging book, Boostrom invites readers to think about the ways in which the practice of teaching unintentionally promotes nonthinking."--BOOK JACKET.

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