Teaching Critical Thinking: Dialogue and Dialectic

Abstract

Part 1 The position: what kind of knowledge will transfer three competing conceptions of critical thinking teaching critical thinking through the disciplines some practical guidelines for teaching critical thinking problems of evaluating critical thinking programmes. Part 2 Critiques of the position: thinking about critical thinking - philosophers can't go it alone, Stephen P.Norris McPeck, informal logic, and the nature of critical thinking, Harvey Siegel response to Stephen Norris and Harvey Siegel on the analysis of critical thinking and education, John E.McPeck McPeck's mistakes, Richard Paul Paul's critique of critical thinking and education, John McPeck.