Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life
Introduction. 1. Becoming a Fair Minded Thinker. 2. The First Four Stages of Development. 3. Self Understanding. 4. The Parts of Thinking. 5. The Standards for Thinking. 6. Asking Questions That Lead to Good Thinking. 7. Master the Thinking, Master the Content. 8. Designing Your Own Learning. 9. Evaluating Your Own Learning. 10. Making Decisions. 11. Solving Problems. 12. Taking Charge of Your Irrational Tendencies. 13. Monitoring Your Sociocentric Tendencies. 14. Developing as an Ethical Reasoner. 15. Learning Using Information Critically Ethically: Part One. 16. Learning Using Information Critically Ethically: Part Two. 17. Strategic Thinking, Part One. 18. Strategic Thinking, Part Two. 19. Becoming an Advanced Thinker. Appendices: A. Critical Questions about Critical Thinking. B. Sample Analyses of "The Logic Of." C. Article: "Iraq Is a Pediatrician's Hell: No Way to Stop the Dying." Glossary. References. Index.