Fernando Leal and colleagues at the University of Guadalajara have released Introducción a la Teoría de la Argumentación, an integrated selection of pieces intended to assist students and their teachers to focus on argumentation when reading and writing academic texts. The section Parte II: La téchnica de mapeo de argumentos (argument mapping) contains three pieces emerging [...]
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New book on teoría de la argumentación
Posted in Argument Mapping, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Education, Teaching, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Expertise, Reasoning, Teaching, Thinking on October 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The five main theories about how critical thinking skills are acquired are Formal Training, Theoretical Instruction, Situated Cognition, Practice, and Evolutionary Psychology. The most credible theory is Practice.
Argument Mapping in Your Subject – workshop and website
Posted in Argument Mapping, Teaching on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow Martin Davies and I are conducting a workshop at Melbourne University under the heading “Argument Mapping in Your Subject”. It is intended for university-level educators interested in somehow incorporating argument mapping into their teaching. Around 60 educators are enrolled, with about half from Melbourne University and half from other universities around Australia. It [...]
Yes, the war was legal – argument map
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation, Teaching on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Greg Hunt’s brave case that the Iraq war was in fact legal presented in an argument map.
Want Logic? Teach Logic
Posted in Education, Reasoning, Teaching on May 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
That’s the title the editor gave to a letter I had published in the Education Age (21 May 07), commenting on an opinion piece by my University of Melbourne colleague Marty Ross. Since they don’t make the letters to Education Age available online, I’m putting it up here. Marty’s piece generally was very good. He [...]
Critical Thinking – Where to start?
Posted in Critical Thinking, Teaching on February 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
“Just Some Guy” wrote today: I recently stumbled on an excellent online article authored by yourself entitled “Teaching Critical Thinking“. I was wondering if you could take a moment of your valuable time to suggest a couple of books on the subject. I would like improve my critical thinking skills so I suppose the focus [...]
Yep, that’s what we do…
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Reasoning, Teaching on February 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On the AILACT list, Michael Scriven wrote: Mark got in a dig about ‘speed reasoning’ my most popular course; perhaps I should mention that the first thing I say in the first session is, there’s no royal road to speed reasoning, you just have to become good at plain old slow reasoning first, and then [...]
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