The second edition of Thinking in Education demonstrates how emotions, mental acts, thinking skills, and informal fallacies can be interconnected and energized and how they can stimulate critical and creative thinking in the classroom. The book makes a major contribution towards teaching for knowledge and for judgment.
This second edition makes a major contribution toward teaching for judgment skills, not just for knowledge. It provides methods for integrating emotive experience and thinking into a concerted approach to the improvement of reasoning and judgment. This second edition also shows how the community of inquiry can be utilized for the reduction of violence in the classroom and for the improvement of education of children at risk. The volume's abundant information about the varied approaches in the field of education makes it an invaluable resource for all teachers.
