Developing Student Criticality in Higher Education: Undergraduate Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences

by Brenda Johnston, Peter Ford, Rosamond Mitchell, et al.

Book Overview

Critical thinking is a major and enduring aspect of higher education and the development of criticality in students has long been a core aim. However, understandings of criticality are conceptually and empirically unclear. The book combines a well developed conceptual discussion of the nature of criticality appropriate for the twenty-first century, the extent to which it is attainable by arts and social science undergraduates, and the paths by which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826441173
• ISBN13: 9780826441171
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"