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Colley, Binta M.; Bilics, Andrea R.; Lerch, Carol M. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The ability to think critically is an important trait of all members of society. With today's multinational, multicultural, complex issues, citizens must be able to sift through large amounts of various data to make intelligent decisions. Thinking critically must be a focus of higher education in order to provide the intellectual training for its…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Critical Thinking, Fundamental Concepts, Reflection
King, Caryn M. – 1992
A study examined the extent to which literacy tasks were emphasized within a fourth-grade social studies classroom. Subjects, 21 fourth-grade students and their teacher at a private K-8 elementary school located in an urban area of the east, were observed over a 7-week period as they conducted a thematic unit on liberty. Data included audiotapings…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing