Building Critical Thinking
Thoughts and Lessons for Critical Thinking in Schools
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  • 12 Critical Thinking Skills
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  • Program Summary
    • Choosing Effective Vocabulary
    • How to Fill a Page (When You Have Nothing to Say)
    • Resources – Books
    • Critical Thinking and Reading Skills
  • Inferences
    • Key Terms and the Inference Continuum
    • Bad Inferences – Fallacies and Biases
    • Application: Inferences and History
    • An Aside: Strong Inferences vs. Ghosts
  • Evidence
    • Eight Types of Evidence – Strengths and Weaknesses
    • Bad Evidence – Fallacies and Poor Appeals
  • Values and Anti-Values
    • Value Conflicts and Key Terms
    • Tragic Application of Values
    • Common Value Systems
  • Rhetoric
    • Fallacies and a Few Fun Techniques
  • Teaching Dignity
    • Donna Hicks’s Essential Elements of Dignity
    • Fundamental Needs
    • Mapping Classroom Culture – Support and Humiliation
    • The Dignity Pledge
  • Key Elements of Oppression
    • Separation and Segregation
    • Stripping Away Resources and Protections
    • Violence and Intimidation
    • Murder and Elimination
    • Toxic Mythologies and Deep Narratives
    • Scapegoating and Conspiracy Theories
    • Caricature and Stereotypes
    • Mockery
    • Denial and Willful Ignorance
    • Conclusion and FAQs

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Posted on June 21, 2013 by Mike Wilper
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