Critical Thinking and Education - 9781138206892

Taylor & Francis

Critical Thinking and EducationAuthor(s): John E. McPeck\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138206892, 978-1138206892\nSynopsis\nThe skills of critical thinking occupy a contentious place in debates on education. It is of course widely recognised that education must consist of more than an unreasoning accumulation of facts and skills, and that modern society demands a highly-developed critical awareness to cope with its ever-increasing complexities. Yet the very term critical thinking threatens to become a vague and unexamined slogan, displayed more in party tricks than in useful knowledge. \n\nIn this book, first published in 1981, Professor McPeck offers a critique of the major ideas and important work in the field, including those of Ennis and de Bono, while at the same time presenting his own rigorous ideas on the proper place in critical thinking in the philosophy of education. The book aims to establish a so.