The Aspiring Thinker’s Guide to Critical Thinking

by Linda Elder, Richard Paul

This guide is introduces critical thinking concepts and provides strategies for developing one's own critical thinking abilities. Its full color images and glossy format help capture the attention of today’s student while focusing on the essence of critical thinking as it applies to the world in which we now live. The skills implicit in this guide apply to all subjects. Teachers can use it to design instruction, assignments and tests in any subject. Students can use it to improve their learning in any content area. The guide focuses on how to analyze and assess thinking, as well as how to develop as fairminded thinkers. It can be used as a supplement to a textbook or as a stand alone, to teach the fundamentals of critical thinking.

81 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and a prominent authority on critical thinking. She is President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. Dr. Elder has taught psychology and critical thinking at the college level and has given presentations to more than 20,000 educators at all levels. She has co-authored four books, including Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and Twenty-Five Days to Better Thinking and Better Living. She has co-authored eighteen thinker’s guides on critical thinking and co-authors a quarterly column on critical thinking in the Journal of Developmental Education.

Dr. Elder has also developed an original stage theory of critical thinking development. Concerned with understanding and illuminating the relationship between thinking and affect, and the barriers to critical thinking, Dr. Elder has placed these issues at the center of her thinking and her work.

With experience in both administration and the classroom, Dr. Elder understands firsthand the problems facing educators. She is a dynamic presenter who reaches her audience on a person-to person level.

To contact Dr. Linda Elder, email: elder@criticalthinking.org

Reviews

[Jatin · Rating 2 out of 5]

More like a cheatsheet than a book.