Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting - Hardcover

Brookfield, Stephen D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555420559 ISBN 13: 9781555420550

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1987

Synopsis

1989 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education

This award–winning book offers a practical, straightforward guide to helping adults develop their critical thinking skills in four key arenas of adult life: in their personal relationships, in their workplaces, in their political involvements, and in their responses to the media.

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Review:

"Developing Critical Thinkers is a book practitioners and others interested in applying critical thinking principles will find extremely useful. The writing is clear, the examples are many, and the ideas are well grounded in theory and research."

About the Author:

STEPHEN D. BROOKFIELD is Distinguished Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He has written widely on the topics of adult education, critical thinking, and teaching and has received numerous awards for his books, including the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education and the Imogene E. Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1555420559
• ISBN 13: 9781555420550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294