Keys to Thinking and Learning Creating Options and Opportunities

Free Download Carol J. Carter, "Keys to Thinking and Learning: Creating Options and Opportunities"
English | 2013 | pages: 315 | ISBN: 1292042613 | PDF | 3,5 mb
For any Study Skills or Student Success course with a critical thinking emphasis.

This text is designed to facilitate students’ understanding of how they think and to enhance their power to apply their thinking ability. Through the application of critical thinking to study skills and life skills topics, readers will increase their ability to understand how their minds work and to maximize their achievement. Students will learn how to apply problem solving, decision making, and logical reasoning processes to all aspects of their lives.
Emphasis on personal action and responsibility encourages students to make well-considered choices and to be responsible for the consequences, helping them to avoid unexamined responses to people and situations.
Critical thinking is consistently applied to college, career, and life situations. Through understanding how text topics apply to their own lives and goals, students can internalize the meaning of each thinking process.
The book emphasizes the combination of knowledge and action, helping students to realize that their knowledge is useless unless it is actively applied toward desired outcomes. Once students master the basic thinking skills presented in this book, they will be ready to be effective "knowledge-workers", meeting and exceeding the demands of their employers in the twenty-first century global economy.