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Thursday, August 10, 2006
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I've been thinking about Richard's suggestion for teaching critical thinking skills in school. I think this is A much better way to run things, as a HSC student I remember virtually nothing that I learnt from the preliminary course by this stage and what I learnt is certainly not making me a better citzen or advancing my liberal arts education. I think that teaching critical thinking skills could acheive these goals.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more I think it would be a good idea to blend learning of these techniques for critical thinking with "Concept based learning" ( my own coinage as far as I can tell). A course could be run combining the study of informal logic with the study of concepts like the rule of law
and the collective action problem. Has anyone got ideas on how such a course could be taught and other concepts that could be explored in the course as well as what the content would be in regards to informal logic?
You know what would be nice? If you would, once a week, correct a common philosophical misconception. Possible misconceptions include:
ReplyDeleteMisconconceptions about the logical positivists ( that logical positivism= analytic philosophy, that logical positivism entails or equals or is even neccessairly compatiable with scientfic realism).
Misconceptions about the comment "I think therefore I am".
Etc