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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Part I From Research to Implications |
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Introduction - What Is Critical Thinking? |
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A Common Questions about Critical Thinking in English Language Teaching |
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A.1 I'm a Language Teacher: Why Should I Be Concerned about Teaching Critical Thinking? |
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A.2 Isn't Critical Thinking Something Best Taught in the Students' First Language? |
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A.3 My Students Are So Unmotivated: How Could I Ever Get Them to Study Critical Thinking? |
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A.4 Isn't Critical Thinking Something That Students Pick Up on Their Own as Part of Getting a Good Education? |
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10 | (2) |
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A.5 Aren't We Just Forcing Our Students to Adopt Western Styles of Thinking? |
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12 | (4) |
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A.6 Do You Really Need a Book on Critical Thinking in ELT? |
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B Focusing on Critical Thinking |
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17 | (10) |
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18 | (3) |
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21 | (2) |
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B.3 Externalizing Critical Thinking Through Problem-Solving |
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23 | (4) |
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C Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to Second-Language Learners |
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27 | (3) |
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30 | (2) |
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Part II From Implications to Application |
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32 | (2) |
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Section 1 The Critical Thinking Cycle ... |
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34 | (1) |
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A Developing Dispositions |
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34 | (12) |
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35 | (1) |
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Activity 2 Supporting Opinions: The `Why' Game |
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36 | (2) |
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Activity 3 Challenging Beliefs |
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38 | (3) |
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Activity 4 Create a Profile: Understanding Biases |
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41 | (2) |
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Activity 5 Bias in News Headlines |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (14) |
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Activity 6 Paying Attention |
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47 | (1) |
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Activity 7 Show Me You're Listening: Body Language |
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48 | (4) |
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Activity 8 Show Me You're Listening II: Backchanneling |
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52 | (3) |
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Activity 9 Picture What I'm Saying |
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55 | (2) |
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Activity 10 Listen. Don't Interrupt! |
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57 | (3) |
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60 | (13) |
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Activity 11 Categorize It! |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (2) |
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Activity 14 Spot the Problem! |
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67 | (4) |
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Activity 15 Sloppy Sophistry |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (15) |
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Activity 17 Summarize This |
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75 | (4) |
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Activity 18 Critical Conversations |
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79 | (2) |
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81 | (4) |
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Activity 20 The Critical Thinking Cycle: A Review |
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85 | (3) |
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Section 2 Logical Fallacies |
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88 | (1) |
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A Logical Fallacies: An Introduction |
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88 | (5) |
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Activity 21 Introduction to Logical Fallacies |
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88 | (5) |
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B Logical Fallacies: Faulty Conclusions |
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93 | (3) |
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Activity 22 Does It Follow? |
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96 | (2) |
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Activity 23 Spot the Non Sequitur |
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98 | (3) |
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Activity 24 Non Sequiturs in Politics |
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101 | (2) |
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Activity 25 How Probable? |
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103 | (1) |
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Activity 26 Drawing the Conclusion |
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104 | (4) |
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Activity 27 Fearmongering with Probability Begging the Question |
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108 | (3) |
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Activity 28 Which Is the Better Reason? |
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111 | (3) |
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Activity 29 Don't Beg the Question! |
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114 | (4) |
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Activity 30 To Beg or Raise the Question Post Hoc Fallacy |
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118 | (3) |
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Activity 31 Does A Cause B? |
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121 | (2) |
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Activity 32 Fallacious Connections |
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123 | (5) |
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Activity 33 Correlation not Causation Hasty Generalization |
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128 | (4) |
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Activity 34 All Students in This Class ... |
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132 | (3) |
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Activity 35 Don't Be Hasty! |
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135 | (6) |
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Activity 36 Everyday Generalizations |
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141 | (3) |
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Activity 38 A Popular Restaurant |
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144 | (3) |
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Activity 39 How Many Causes? False Equivalence |
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147 | (1) |
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Activity 40 Comparing Apples to Oranges |
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148 | (3) |
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Activity 41 They're Not the Same |
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151 | (4) |
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Activity 42 Wronger than Wrong Sunk Cost Fallacy |
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155 | (3) |
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Activity 43 What Should They Do? |
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158 | (3) |
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Activity 44 Is It a Good Decision? |
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161 | (3) |
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Activity 45 What Would You Do? |
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164 | (4) |
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C Logical Fallacies: Questionable Reasons |
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168 | (3) |
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168 | (3) |
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Activity 46 Don't Attack Me! |
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171 | (3) |
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Activity 47 Attack the Argument! |
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174 | (3) |
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Activity 48 Guilt by Association Red Herring |
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177 | (3) |
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Activity 49 Avoiding the Question |
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180 | (3) |
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Activity 50 Don't Distract Me! |
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183 | (3) |
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Activity 51 Red Herrings in Politics Circular Reasoning |
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186 | (3) |
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Activity 52 Don't Go Round in Circles |
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189 | (4) |
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Activity 53 You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do! |
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193 | (3) |
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Activity 54 Is Circular Reasoning Begging the Question? Straw Man |
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196 | (3) |
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Activity 55 Don't Exaggerate! |
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199 | (3) |
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Activity 56 Family Arguments |
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202 | (4) |
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Activity 57 Countering a Straw Man Argument Either/Or |
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206 | (3) |
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Activity 58 The Third Option |
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209 | (3) |
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Activity 59 Either A or B But What About C? |
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212 | (3) |
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Activity 60 It's Not So Black and White! Stacking the Deck |
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215 | (3) |
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Activity 61 Half the Picture |
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218 | (3) |
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Activity 62 The Full Picture |
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221 | (3) |
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Activity 63 Fair Play or Stacking the Deck? Equivocation |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (4) |
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Activity 65 Changing the Meaning |
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231 | (3) |
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Activity 66 Equivocation in Politics Appeal to Emotion |
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234 | (2) |
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Activity 67 How Does It Make You Feel? |
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236 | (3) |
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Activity 68 Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid |
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239 | (3) |
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Activity 69 So Many Emotions |
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242 | (4) |
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D Logical Fallacies: Mistaken Assumptions |
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246 | (4) |
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Activity 70 Heads or Tails? |
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250 | (2) |
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252 | (2) |
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Activity 72 What Would You Do (Part 2)? Logical Paradox |
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254 | (3) |
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Activity 73 Is It a Contradiction? |
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257 | (4) |
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Activity 74 The Abilene Paradox |
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261 | (2) |
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Activity 75 What's the Paradox? Unwarranted Assumptions |
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263 | (2) |
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Activity 76 Is It Warranted? |
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265 | (3) |
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Activity 77 This Morning's Assumptions |
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268 | (3) |
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Activity 78 What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? Genetic Fallacy |
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271 | (3) |
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Activity 79 Which Is the Better Reason? (Part 2) |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (2) |
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Activity 81 Origins Common Belief Fallacy |
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279 | (4) |
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Activity 82 True or False |
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283 | (2) |
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Activity 83 Accept or Reject |
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285 | (3) |
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Activity 84 The Things We Believed Slippery Slope Fallacy |
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288 | (2) |
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Activity 85 Negative Chains |
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290 | (2) |
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Activity 86 Can I Have a Chocolate? |
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292 | (2) |
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Activity 87 Countering Slippery Slope Arguments Ignorance Fallacy |
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294 | (4) |
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Activity 88 Evidence of No Evidence? |
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298 | (3) |
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Activity 89 No Evidence Is No Evidence! |
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301 | (4) |
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Activity 90 No Evidence Is Evidence! Naturalistic Fallacy |
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305 | (2) |
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Activity 91 Is It Good For Us? |
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307 | (4) |
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Activity 92 What Is to What Ought to Be! |
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311 | (3) |
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Activity 93 That's Just the Way It Is! |
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314 | (3) |
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Part III From Application to Implementation |
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317 | (9) |
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317 | (1) |
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A Creating a Critical Thinking Course |
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317 | (4) |
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A.1 Making Your Own CT course |
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318 | (2) |
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A.2 Negotiating a CT Course |
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320 | (1) |
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B Using the Activities to Supplement a Course |
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321 | (1) |
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C Implementing Critical Thinking Activities into Your Classroom |
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321 | (3) |
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C.1 Using the CT Cycle Activities as an Introduction |
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321 | (1) |
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C.2 Using Activity 21 as a Needs Analysis |
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322 | (1) |
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C.3 Using the Logical Fallacy Activities |
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322 | (1) |
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C.4 Returning to the CT Cycle |
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323 | (1) |
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C.5 Reflecting on Learning |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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D Going Beyond the Activities in the Book |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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D.2 Finding More Fallacies |
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325 | (1) |
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D.3 Creating Your Own CT Activities |
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325 | (1) |
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325 | (1) |
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Part IV From Implementation to Research |
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326 | (21) |
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326 | (1) |
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A Integrating Methodologies |
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326 | (5) |
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327 | (1) |
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A.2 Mixed Methods Research |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (2) |
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331 | (13) |
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B.1 Progressive Exploratory Action Research |
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331 | (6) |
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B.2 Progressive Explanatory Action Research |
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337 | (7) |
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C Final Caveats and Suggestions |
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344 | (1) |
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345 | (1) |
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References |
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Index |
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