Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches

When Thinking Gets Better, What Is It That Improves? -- Applications to Other Kinds of Thinking -- Helps and Hazards in Improving Thinking -- Breadth of approach -- The relationship between content and thinking -- Learning about and learning to do -- Student ownership -- Transfer of thinking -- References -- 3. Kinds of Thinking -- Some Broad Categories of Thinking -- Critical thinking -- Creative thinking -- Learning for understanding and the active use of knowledge -- An interlude on overlap -- Some More Specialized Kinds of Thinking -- Decision making -- Everyday problem solving