1st Edition

Critical Thinking in Young Minds

By Victor Quinn Copyright 1997
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

How do you protect young minds from the everyday bombardment of "tabloid culture" – the malign cultural influences which are so prevalent in today’s society? Originally published in 1997, stimulating and actively developing children’s philosophical and critical thinking is one answer and an area in which Victor Quinn had enjoyed extraordinary success. Here he conveys to teachers, through... Read more

List of Figures.  Acknowledgements.  Media Response to Victor Quinn’s Work.  Part A: Lesson Plans and Analyses  1. Introduction  2. Learning about Contradictions  3. What is the World?  4. Tales and the Shoplifting Tale  5. A Lesson of Questions  6. In Praise of Falsity  7. An Experience of INSET  Part B: Process  8. Educative Questioning  9. The Social Intellectual Virtues  10. Visualising Problems and Solutions  11. A Quarrel and Four Arguments  12. Climate and Pedagogy  13. Some Theoretical Perspectives  14. Quality Assessment: Quality Display.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Victor Quinn