The Thinker&#039;s Guide for Students on How to Study &amp; Learn a Discipline

Richard Paul; Linda Elder

doi:10.5771/9781538133835

Summary

The Thinker’s Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline empowers students to take control of their own learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, drawing upon reliable information, and exploring alternative opinions. Making intellectual work more accessible, practical, and engaging, this book fosters minds that question, probe, and can master a variety of forms of knowledge through intellectual perseverance and regular use of critical thinking skills.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

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Edition: 2/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-63234-000-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-3383-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 60
Product type: Book Titles

Preface No access Pages i - iv
How to Use This Guide No access Pages 1 - 1
Contents No access Pages 2 - 3
Why a Thinker’s Guide on How to Study and Learn? No access Pages 4 - 4
1. The Instructional Methods of James Mill No access
2. Conclusion No access
1. 18 Ideas for Becoming a Master Student No access
2. The Relationship Between Critical Thinking and How to Study and Learn a Discipline No access
3. How To Learn With Discipline No access
4. How to Identify an Underlying Idea for the Subjects You Study No access
5. Understanding Content Through The Thinking It Requires: A Key To Deep Learning No access
6. How to Identify the Structure of a Subject: The Elements of Thought No access
7. How to Figure Out the Form of Thinking Essential to Courses or Subjects No access
8. How to Analyze the Logic of an Article, Essay, or Chapter No access
9. How to Figure Out the Logic of a Textbook No access
10. How to Understand Ideas No access
11. How to Think Within the Ideas of a Subject No access
12. How to Control (and Not Be Controlled By) Ideas No access
13. How to Understand Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening and Thinking No access
14. How to Learn Ideas from Textbooks No access
1. How Good a Student Are You? No access
2. How to Think Through the Defining Traits of the Disciplined Mind No access
3. To Evaluate Thinking We Must Understand and Apply Intellectual Standards No access
4. How to Evaluate an Author’s Reasoning No access
5. How to Raise Important Questions Within a Subject No access
6. How to Distinguish One-System from Competing-Systems Disciplines No access
7. How to Ask Questions About Fields of Study No access
8. How to Ask Questions About Textbooks No access
9. How to Understand the Logic of Biochemistry (An Example) No access
10. How to Think Biologically (An Example) No access
11. How To Think Historically (An Example) No access
12. The Logic of Philosophy No access
13. The Logic of Sociology No access
14. The Logic of Archaeology No access
15. How to Understand the Role of Questions in Thinking and Learning No access
16. How to Distinguish Inert Information and Activated Ignorance from Activated Knowledge No access
17. A Test to Repeat In Every Class and Subject No access