Teaching Thinking

Taylor & Francis

Teaching ThinkingIssues and Approaches\nAuthor(s): Robert J. Swartz, D.N. Perkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138648432, 978-1138648432\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative agenda called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.