Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your learning and Your Life

Introduction. 1. Becoming a Fair-Minded Thinker. 2. First Four Stages of Development. 3. Self-Understanding. 4. Parts of Thinking. 5. Standards for Thinking. 6. Asking Questions That Lead to Good Thinking. 7. Master the Thinking, Master the Content. 8. Designing Your Own Learning. 9. Evaluating Your Own Learning. 10. Making Decisions. 11. Solving Problems. 12. Taking Charge of Your Irrational Tendencies. 13. Monitoring Your Sociocentric Tendencies. 14. Developing as an Ethical Reasoner. 15. Learning & Using Information Critically & Ethically: Part One. 16. Learning & Using Information Critically & Ethically: Part Two. 17. Strategic Thinking, Part One. 18. Strategic Thinking, Part Two. 19. Becoming an Advanced Thinker. Appendices: A. Critical Questions about Critical Thinking. B. Sample Analyses of The Logic Of… C. Article: Iraq Is a Pediatrician’s Hell: No Way to Stop the Dying. Glossary. References. Index.