Re: Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought

Some blog followers might be interested in discussion-list post “Re: Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought” [Hake (2011)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Valerie Kisiel, in her STLHE-L post “Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought” has pointed to:

a. a commercially available “Overview of Critical Thinking Workshop” http://bit.ly/hb5YCX; and

b. the “Critical Thinking Community” http://bit.ly/e3GEyz (CTC): “Celebrating 30 years of working for essential change in education.”

The CTC is sponsoring the “31st International Conference on Critical Thinking” http://bit.ly/ggeVjr, 25-28 July 2011 (Pre-conference 23-24 July) in Berkeley, CA. Presenters will be Rush Cosgrove http://bit.ly/gvSxyG, Linda Elder http://bit.ly/hC2U9V, Gerald Nosich http://bit.ly/f3JUrJ, and Richard Paul http://bit.ly/h7dOlM.

Elder and Paul are authors of many of the Critical Thinking Community's set of 21 “Thinkers Guides” - see http://bit.ly/hvNeTc. Among the titles are Intellectual Standards, Scientific Thinking, Engineering Reasoning, The Art of Asking Essential Questions, "The Art of Socratic Questioning, and How to Improve Student Learning.

Are any blog followers familiar with those Guides? What is their connection, if any, with Adey & Shayer's “Cognitive Acceleration” & Feuerstein's “Instrumental Enrichment” http://bit.ly/fASlF1?

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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands

President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the

Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)

rrhake@earthlink.net

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“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. It is for this reason that the critical thinking of the physicist cannot possibly be restricted to the examination of concepts from his own specific field. He cannot proceed without considering critically a much more difficult problem, the problem of analyzing the nature of everyday thinking.”

-- Albert Einstein (1936) in Physics and Reality

REFERENCES [All URL's accessed on 24 March 2011 and shortened by http://bit.ly/.]

Einstein, A. 1936. Physics and Reality, J. of the Franklin Institute 221. An abstract is online at http://bit.ly/hhfwwb.

Hake, R.R. 2011. “Re: Critical Thinking: Designing Instructional Strategies to Promote Critical Thought,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/hNNf1E. Post of 24 Mar 2011 09:44:12-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being distributed to various discussion lists.