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Selected Works

2008

Teaching

Curriculum and Instruction

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Full-Text Articles in Education

Learning To Transgress: Embedded Pedagogies Of The Gothic, Jan Wellington Dec 2007

Learning To Transgress: Embedded Pedagogies Of The Gothic, Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.


An Act Of Translation: The Need To Understand Students' Understanding Of Critical Thinking In The Undergraduate Classroom, Tiffany Gayle Chenault, Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello Dec 2007

An Act Of Translation: The Need To Understand Students' Understanding Of Critical Thinking In The Undergraduate Classroom, Tiffany Gayle Chenault, Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

Tiffany Chenault

This article extends and expands the existing literature on critical thinking (CT) by both
establishing the need for more student-centered research on the topic and reporting on
the findings of a CT research project with two central, related goals: 1) To record and
analyze undergraduate students’ definition of CT and 2) To create an easy-to-use instrument
that can assist faculty members across many disciplines identify and understand
their students’ use of the term so as to improve both teaching and learning. In this
article an overview of the limits of existing CT research is followed by a discussion of
the …