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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 37 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Patrick Finn. |
| Summary |
Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a "critical thinker." The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical "attack" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world. Critical Condition is a call to action unlike any other. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Creative thinking.
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Critical thinking.
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Thought and thinking.
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| Added Author |
Finn, Patrick.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781771121125 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1771121122 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13337370 |
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