Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum A Brief Edition of Thought and Knowledge

• Main Author: Halpern, Diane F. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 1997
• Subjects: Critical thinking > Problems, exercises, etc
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• Physical Description: viii, 284 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and indexes
• ISBN: 9780805827316; 0805827315

Consider that many of the people who are alive today will be working at jobs that do not currently exist and that the explosion of information means that today's knowledge will quickly become outdated. As a result, two goals for education clearly emerge -- learning how to learn and how to think critically about information that changes at a rapid rate. We face a multitude of new challenges to our natural environment, difficult dilemmas concerning the use of weapons of mass destruction, political agendas for the distribution of scarce commodities and wealth, psychological problems of loneliness and depression, escalating violence, and an expanding elderly population. International in scope and in magnitude, these new problems strain resources and threaten the continuance of life on earth. To creatively and effectively attack these imminent problems, a well educated, thinking populace is essential