Habits of the Mind: Critical Thinking in the Classroom

Educators on all levels will benefit from this book that is dedicated to the importance of learning reasoning skills concurrently with subject matter. Habits of the Mind, written by a thirty-year veteran in the field of education, is ultimately concerned with the total strengthening of education in America through the teaching of logical and critical thinking. Contents: A Context for Reasoning; Truth Knowledge and Truth Claims; Conditional Reasoning; Classes and Reasoning; Logic in Learning; Language; Language in Learning; Informal Fallacies; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving; Changing the Paradigm.