Student Involvement and Critical Thinking Resources

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Discussion Resources

Resources subscribers share will be compiled and posted at the week’s end. Some resources for discussion include:

On Critical Thinking:

http://stephenbrookfield.com/pdf_files/CriticalThnkng.ppt

Recent work of Stephen Brookfield on the topic of teaching critical thinking in the adult ed context. Visit the above link for a short power point on his Web site.

http://stephenbrookfield.com/papers.html

Even more great book excerpts and presentations from Brookfield

On Questioning and Group Discussions

http://stephenbrookfield.com/pdf_files/BCRT_Wkshp_Pkt.pdf

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher - contains lots of strategies on facilitating critical reflection and discussion in student groups

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning

Defining Socratic questioning as it relates to critical thinking

"Critical thinking provides the conceptual tools for understanding how the mind functions in its pursuit of meaning and truth; Socratic questioning employs those tools in framing questions essential to the pursuit of meaning and truth."

http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/socratic_questions.htm