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Becoming a Critical Thinker

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Sarah Birrell Ivory

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ISBN:
9780198841531
Published:
25 Jan 2021
Availability:
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Becoming a Critical Thinker is a clear and inspiring guide to developing essential critical thinking skills. The book features unique practitioner and student interviews to help students appreciate how vital critical thinking is in an academic, professional, and personal context. It includes interviews with students from a range of universities, offering reassurance and guidance on how to tackle reading lists, voice ideas or questions in groups, and listen actively from those with first-hand experience.

It has a clear three-part structure; firstly, examining what critical thinking is; secondly, exploring the three overarching aims of critical thinking; and finally, focusing on how to develop the essential tools to support those aims. This text assumes no prior knowledge or understanding, and it has been developed to gently guide the reader from school-level education to university-level thinking in a clear and engaging manner.

KEY FEATURES

  • Offers insight and advice from professionals and students, helping students learn from the experiences of others in a range of contexts
  • Guided exercises, checklists, and further reading encourage students to apply techniques learnt to real situations
  • Chapters dedicated to listening and speaking, which are often overlooked, but are vitally important skills.

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Part 1: What is a critical thinker and why become one?
1: Why go to university?
2: What is critical thinking?
3: How to become a critical thinker

Part 2: Understanding the three aims of critical thinking
4: Quality of argument
5: Strength of evidence
6: Clarity of communication

Part 3: Mastering the five tools of critical thinking
7: Writing
8: Reading
9: Listening
10: Speaking
11: Thinking

Sarah Birrell Ivory - Lecturer in Climate Change and Business Strategy, University of Edinburgh Business School.

Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory is a Lecturer in Climate Change and Business Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS). Dr Ivory established the undergraduate Global Challenges for Business course, which in 2019 won one of the prestigious Aspen Institute's 'Ideas Worth Teaching' awards. This course is centred around critical thinking, understood through the lens of global challenges. Dr Ivory has taken this award-winning approach to offer students and educators a fresh way of learning and teaching critical thinking. In addition, Dr Ivory is Director of the Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability (CBCCS) and has an established research career in sustainability, social enterprise, and critical thinking pedagogy. In the past, Dr Ivory has taught study skills for business, strategy, organisational behaviour, leadership, sustainability, and climate and environmental policy.

The following resources are available for students using Becoming a Critical Thinker:

  • Additional 'student say' features
  • Links to additional resources
  • Downloadable Tools Matrix
  • Downloadable checklists
  • Fully-customisable argument map
  • MCQs
  • Flashcard glossary

The following resources are available for lecturers prescribing Becoming a Critical Thinker for their course:

  • Tutorial suggestions
  • PowerPoint slides