Added by: decabristka | Karma: 67899.10 | Coursebooks, YLE | 4 March 2016
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Big English Plus engages students with rich and varied content, encourages progress with ongoing review and assessment and helps develop independent learning and critical thinking with challenging activities. More reading, More grammar, More exam preparation.
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (book and audiobook)
What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.
In addition to expanding vocabulary, these challenging little word puzzles provide fundamental instruction in critical thinking and prepare students to perform well on standardized tests.
The Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking
This accessible book takes you step by step through the art of argument, from thinking about what to write and how you might write it, to how you may strengthen your claims, and how to come to a strong conclusion. Engagingly written and featuring useful summaries at the end of each chapter, this new book offers easily transferable practical advice on assessing the arguments of others and putting forward effective arguments of your own. The book's strength lies in its clear guidance and the use of real-life arguments - both contemporary and historical - and real-life essay questions from a variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.
Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking: Case studies in global schooling
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Other | 13 September 2015
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The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated this diffusion of thinking skills, curriculum and pedagogy in a cultural context. This book will help to redress such an imbalance in its critical assessment of the cross-cultural validity of transplanting thinking skills programs from one educational system to another on an international scale.
