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Learning to Think: Disciplinary Perspectives

ISBN: 978-1-118-30812-7
Paperback
352 pages
March 2002, Jossey-Bass
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Preface

The Author

1. Learning to Think: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective 1

2. Orderly Thinking: Learning in a Structured Discipline 31

3. Hard Thinking: Applying Structured Knowledge to Unstructured Problems 62

4. Inductive Thinking: Knowledge-Intensive Learning 96

5. Multifaceted Thinking: Learning in a Social Science 131

6. Precedent and Reason: Case Versus Logic 167

7. Organizing Instruction and Understanding Learners 196

8. Criticism and Creativity: Thinking in the Humanities 232

9. Learning, Understanding, and Meaning 271

References 301

Name Index 319

Subject Index 323