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Critical Thinking

MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

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Critical Thinking

By: Jonathan Haber
Narrated by: Joel Richards
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Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential 21st century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking?

Haber describes the term's origins in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and science. He examines the components of critical thinking, including structured thinking, language skills, background knowledge, and information literacy, along with such necessary intellectual traits as intellectual humility, empathy, and open-mindedness. He discusses how research has defined critical thinking, how elements of critical thinking have been taught for centuries, and how educators can teach critical thinking skills now.

Haber argues that the most important critical thinking issue today is that not enough people are doing enough of it. Fortunately, critical thinking can be taught, practiced, and evaluated. This book offers a guide for teachers, students, and aspiring critical thinkers everywhere, including advice for educational leaders and policy makers on how to make the teaching and learning of critical thinking an educational priority and practical reality.

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Education Movements Philosophy Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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Very thorough book which may be better to read than listen, but one thing it missed which is what critical thinking courses generally miss in academia, is how it engages with the listeners/readers.

If the added more imagery or metaphor based descriptions, stories and humour this would have been a great book. But sadly very dull in the presentation and hard to listen to whole thing.

Very thorough but lacks structure to make it interesting

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It makes references to “Figures”, but there’s no supporting PDF/materials to be able to follow along with and understand.
Conceptually speaking most of the content is sound, but when discussion turns to the use of visual aids, parts of it fall apart quickly

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