Source Criticism on the Schedule: Teaching Critical Thinking

ISBN-13: 9783031143359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 104 str.

Anna Rosenqvist;Stefan Ekecrantz

Opis

This textbook is a practical and theoretical teacher guide on how to develop critical thinking and source criticism in contemporary elementary and secondary education, which requires students to develop their critical thinking from different perspectives as well as to develop their ability to critically evaluate sources they use for school-related work. What can a teacher do to support such development? The authors discuss several different perspectives on how one, as a teacher, can think about and work with source criticism together with the students. In the first part of the book a theoretical background and a principled discussion of critical thinking are discussed. This includes psychological and philosophical perspectives on source criticism. In the second part there are concrete teaching examples and tips on how to work with source criticism in both primary and secondary school.

Spis treści

Introduction (p. 8)

What is critical thinking? (p 14)

Between blind belief in authorities and naive/selective skepticism.

What is it that is analyzed critically? (p. 25)

Subheadings: Claims about "how" and "why?" 

Analysis of bias; Degrees of intentionality ‒ conscious and subconscious bias

Degrees of correctness

The relationship between source and question

The relationship between parts and whole; Reliable versus unreliable sources; Ignorance and lack of information

Psychological perspectives (p. 68)

Cognitive dissonance and critical thinking

Selective source criticism – Confirmation and myside bias 

Critical thinking as trait.

Philosophical perspectives (p. 84)

Humes law – facts and values

Values first, training in critical thinking second

Does critical thinking have an ideological color?

Further reading ‒ literature on critical thinking (p. 98)

O autorze

Anna Rosenqvist is a certified teacher, educated in Montessori pedagogy, and has a Master's degree in educational leadership. She created a school subject that put source criticism on the schedule, and the result of that work is included in this book. After living in Shanghai for three years and working as lecturer at Shanghai International Studies University, she has now moved back to Sweden where she works as a Script Writer and Learning Expert at the private industry.

Stefan Ekecrantz is an Associate professor in Pedagogy and Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research focuses on students’ critical thinking. He has a Ph.D. in History and has taught source criticism at all levels in higher education.

Blurb

This textbook is a practical and theoretical teacher guide on how to develop critical thinking and source criticism in contemporary elementary and secondary education, which requires students to develop their critical thinking from different perspectives as well as to develop their ability to critically evaluate sources they use for school-related work. What can a teacher do to support such development? The authors discuss several different perspectives on how one, as a teacher, can think about and work with source criticism together with the students. In the first part of the book a theoretical background and a principled discussion of critical thinking are discussed. This includes psychological and philosophical perspectives on source criticism. In the second part there are concrete teaching examples and tips on how to work with source criticism in both primary and secondary school.

This book is a translation of an original Swedish edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.