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Critical And Creative Thinking: A Literature Approach, Phyllis Cooper

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

“I have grown increasingly disturbed by the lack of correspondence between what is required for critical thinking in adulthood and what is being taught in school programs intended to develop critical thinking. The problems of thinking in the real world do not correspond well with the problems of the large majority of programs that teach critical thinking. We are preparing students to deal with problems that are in many respects unlike those that they will face as adults.” -- Robert Sternberg, “Teaching Critical Thinking, Part I: Are We Making Critical Mistakes?” Sternberg goes on to suggest that a major difficulty …