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The Future of Thinking: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching

By Jeff Mason , Peter Washington

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1992
ISBN
0415073189, 9780415073189, 9780203975404
LCC
PE1404 .M36 1992
Open Library ID
OL1706270M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1376863 bytes)
Pages
111\111
Topic
Art
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods, the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop conceptual competences and linguistics skills. It is argued that these methods can be implemented successfully across a wide number of humanities subjects and that they encourage the development of practical transferable skills, both cognitive and linguistic.The authors have used these methods successfully in class, and the book includes sample exercises, the initial results, and feedback from their students.

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