Marc | June 1, 2010
In my last post, I talked about critical thinking and noted that one of the problems I have been seeing recently lies in the communicative nature of thinking / research. I wanted to expand on this idea a bit, and look at some of the issues surround what, for want of a better term, we [...]
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Tags: Critical Social Thought, Critical Thinking
Marc | May 28, 2010
I just finished attending the IAFIE conference here in Ottawa, and a lot of the discussion was on the subject of “critical thinking”. Based solely on the presentations there, it became rapidly apparent that the problems many of the presenters were having with critical thinking were the exact opposite of the problems my students have [...]
Category: Communications Theory, Epistemology, Teaching |
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Tags: Critical Thinking, Epistemology, IAFIE, Rhetoric