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• catalog contributor b11045894.
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description "1. Critical Thinking and its Alternatives. The 'Thinking Skills Movement'; a neglected historical dimension. The disinheritance of Mill's ideal. The contemporary thinking skills movement. Parameters, definitions and the critical tradition. Some dissenting voices and further implications. Darwin's lost supper: some features of a 'critical tradition' -- 2. The 'General Thinking Skills' Controversy. General or generalizable? The attack on 'general thinking skills'. Some pedagogic implications. The internality of 'logics' and the problem of relativism. The 'problem' of transfer; syntax and semantics. An example; the Wason Card Test -- 3. Epistemic Bedrock or Logical Quicksand? Domain theory and some of its limitations. The 'languages' of the formal disciplines. The demarcation between cognitive domains. The character of history. The contradiction inherent in domain theory. Domains and language games -- ".
• catalog description "4. Language and Consciousness. Syntax, semantics and human intentionality. Conceptual gridlock; subjective idealism or reductionist behaviourism? Different views of the relationship between language and thought. The centrality of consciousness and intentionality. Successive dialogical approximations -- 5. Side by Side Through Different Landscapes. Intentionality and 'forms of life'. Empirical, conceptual and historical dimensions of thought. Wittgensteinian idealism and 'essentialism' -- a source of misunderstanding. Different landscapes. Linguistic-conceptual innovation and prediction in social science. Concepts, models and 'false consciousness'. The significance of 'rule-governed' behaviour -- 6. Between Our Ears? Cognition as a cultural phenomenon. The biological basis of cognition and 'psychologism'. Constructivism versus nativism. Chomsky's view of the nature of the innate 'fixed nucleus'. Fodor's rejection of learning-theory -- ".
• catalog description "9. Conclusion: 'A Spirit of Adventure'. The industrialisation of education and the 'total' school. Radical alternatives.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-197) and index.".
• catalog description "and its significance. Some empirical studies of 'cognitive stages'. The notion of 'isomorphism'. Form and content -- 7. Language, Tradition and Culture. Tradition and critical thinking. The problem of relativism and some institutional ramifications. Social constructions of reality and the relativities of language. Metaphor, the 'inward' aspect of word-meaning, and myth. Words as tools, mediated learning; a 'zone of proximal development'. Literacy, new dimensions of consciousness, and critical thinking. Monolithic and critical 'world views'. The relativities of understanding and intolerance of ambiguity -- 8. The Sovereignty of Reason. Critical thinking as an ultimate ideal. Mill's education in context. Mill's contemporary relevance. The central issue; truth as a regulative principle. Critical thinking as a standard of social order. Democracy, education and critical thinking -- ".
• catalog extent "vii, 202 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Education, culture, and critical thinking.".
• catalog identifier "184014324X (hbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Education, culture, and critical thinking.".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate,".
• catalog relation "Education, culture, and critical thinking.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "Critical thinking Study and teaching Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "Education Aims and objectives Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "LB1590.3 .B758 1998".
• catalog subject "Problem solving Study and teaching Great Britain.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Critical Thinking and its Alternatives. The 'Thinking Skills Movement'; a neglected historical dimension. The disinheritance of Mill's ideal. The contemporary thinking skills movement. Parameters, definitions and the critical tradition. Some dissenting voices and further implications. Darwin's lost supper: some features of a 'critical tradition' -- 2. The 'General Thinking Skills' Controversy. General or generalizable? The attack on 'general thinking skills'. Some pedagogic implications. The internality of 'logics' and the problem of relativism. The 'problem' of transfer; syntax and semantics. An example; the Wason Card Test -- 3. Epistemic Bedrock or Logical Quicksand? Domain theory and some of its limitations. The 'languages' of the formal disciplines. The demarcation between cognitive domains. The character of history. The contradiction inherent in domain theory. Domains and language games -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "4. Language and Consciousness. Syntax, semantics and human intentionality. Conceptual gridlock; subjective idealism or reductionist behaviourism? Different views of the relationship between language and thought. The centrality of consciousness and intentionality. Successive dialogical approximations -- 5. Side by Side Through Different Landscapes. Intentionality and 'forms of life'. Empirical, conceptual and historical dimensions of thought. Wittgensteinian idealism and 'essentialism' -- a source of misunderstanding. Different landscapes. Linguistic-conceptual innovation and prediction in social science. Concepts, models and 'false consciousness'. The significance of 'rule-governed' behaviour -- 6. Between Our Ears? Cognition as a cultural phenomenon. The biological basis of cognition and 'psychologism'. Constructivism versus nativism. Chomsky's view of the nature of the innate 'fixed nucleus'. Fodor's rejection of learning-theory -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "9. Conclusion: 'A Spirit of Adventure'. The industrialisation of education and the 'total' school. Radical alternatives.".
• catalog tableOfContents "and its significance. Some empirical studies of 'cognitive stages'. The notion of 'isomorphism'. Form and content -- 7. Language, Tradition and Culture. Tradition and critical thinking. The problem of relativism and some institutional ramifications. Social constructions of reality and the relativities of language. Metaphor, the 'inward' aspect of word-meaning, and myth. Words as tools, mediated learning; a 'zone of proximal development'. Literacy, new dimensions of consciousness, and critical thinking. Monolithic and critical 'world views'. The relativities of understanding and intolerance of ambiguity -- 8. The Sovereignty of Reason. Critical thinking as an ultimate ideal. Mill's education in context. Mill's contemporary relevance. The central issue; truth as a regulative principle. Critical thinking as a standard of social order. Democracy, education and critical thinking -- ".
• catalog title "Education, culture, and critical thinking / Ken Brown.".
• catalog type "text".