Table of Contents
Introduction. Rupert Wegerif, Li Li, James C. Kaufman.
Section 1: Theory, history and context of teaching thinking
- Teaching for Thinking: Ethical Reasoning. Robert J.
Sternberg
- A Recent History of Teaching Thinking. Steve Higgins
- Teaching Thinking: An Ideological Perspective. Yoram
Harpaz
- A Confucian perspective on teaching thinking in China. Li
Li.
- There’s more to thinking than the intellect. Douglas P.
Newton.
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Section 2: Approaches to teaching thinking
- Tools for Inquiry: the role of thinking skills approaches in
developing pedagogy as theory. Vivienne Baumfield.
- How to improve thinking. P.N. Johnson-Laird
- Thinking-Based Classroom Teaching Theory and Practice in China.
Weiping Wei.
- Philosophy for Children: Short and long term effects. K., J.,
Topping and S. Trickey.
- Teaching for Successful Intellectual Styles. Li-fang
Zhang.
- The Prospects of Cognitive (Brain) Training as an Aid for
Teaching Thinking. Oshin Vartanian and Erin L. Beatty.
- Using an Informed Understanding of Styles to Enhance Learning
and Teaching in 21st century Learning Environments. Carol Evans and
Michael Waring.
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Section 3: Creativity and creative thinking
- Possibility Thinking: from what is to what might be. Anna
Craft
- Promoting Creativity in Chinese Classrooms: An Examination
Based on Educational Policies. Zhaocun Li, and Amber Lauren
Johnston.
- What we want impacts how we create: Creativity, motivation, and
goals. James C. Kaufman, Roni Reiter-Palmon and Ryan Royston.
- Integrating Knowledge Management into the Instruction of
Creativity in a Blended Learning Environment. Yu-chu Yeh.
- Teaching Creative Thinking in K12 Schools: Lingering Challenges
& New Opportunities. Ronald A. Beghetto.
- Thinking Creatively Across the Lifespan. Anna Hui.
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Section 4: Critical thinking and metacognition
- Metacognition and teaching higher order thinking (HOT) in
science education: Students' learning, teachers' knowledge and
instructional practices. Anat Zohar and Sarit Barzilai.
- Knowledge, disciplinarity and the teaching of critical
thinking. Tim Moore.
- Metacognitive Learning Environments: An approach to
metacognition research. Shirley Larkin.
- An Overview of Metacognitive Awareness and L2 Reading
Strategies. Pingyu Liu and Li Li.
- Thinking about metacognition improves thinking. Marcel V.J.
Veenman.
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Section 5: The assessment of thinking
- Do They Really Work? Evidence For The Efficacy Of Thinking
Skills Approaches In Affecting Learning Outcomes: The Need For A
Broader Perspective. Robert Burden.
- Assessing Critical Thinking in Our Students. Heather A.
Butler.
- Assessing Creative Thinking: Practical Applications. Haiying
Long and Jonathan A. Plucker.
- Assessment for creative teaching and learning in disciplined
improvisation. Vivian M. Y. Cheng.
- A Model for the Assessment of Rational Thought and its
Potential Operationalization. Richard F. West Keith E.
Stanovich
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Section 6: Teaching thinking in STEM subjects
- STEM Education and Problem-Based Learning Areej M. Adel El
Sayary, Sufian A. Forawi, and Nasser Mansour
- The Teaching and Learning of Probabilistic Thinking: Heuristic,
Informal and Fallacious Reasoning. Egan J Chernoff and Bharath
Sriraman.
- Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education: The CASE for
thinking through Science. Mary Oliver and Grady Venville.
- Epistemic practices and thinking in science: fostering
teachers' development in scientific argumentation. Sibel Erduran
and Merce Garcia-Mila.
- Teaching Engineers to Think Creatively: Barriers and Challenges
in STEM Disciplines. David H Cropley.
- Teaching Mathematics Creatively. Ai-Girl Tan
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Section 7: Teaching thinking through collaboration and new
technology
- Technology and teaching thinking: why a dialogic approach is
needed for the 21st Century. Rupert Wegerif.
- Catalyzing Collaborative Learning and Collective Action for
Positive Social Change through Systems Science Education. Michael
Hogan, Owen Harney and Benjamin Broome
- Becoming a questioner in a philosophy class. Baruch B. Schwarz
and Ben Zion Slakmon
- Thinking, Interthinking, and Technological Tools. Simon Knight
and Karen Littleton.
About the Author
Rupert Wegerif is a Professor of Education at
the University of Exeter, UK.
Li Li is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. UK.
James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the
Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, USA.
Reviews
The handbook chapters cover teaching thinking based upon critical
thinking, stimulating interest and motivation, cognitive conflict,
social construction, self-regulation and metacognition, application
and transfer, creating good teaching contexts, teaching according
to different aptitudes, and developing students’ creative
capacity.
Calvin S. Kalman, Science & Education: Contributions from the
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Mathematics.
