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Changing Mathematics Learning Through Changing Teachers' Thinking, Pamela J. Cooke

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

In the context of the goals for reform in mathematics education, as advocated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this thesis calls for elementary level students to be actively engaged in learning mathematics through the use of hands-on materials and problem solving situations which involve investigation, reasoning, and communication. These mathematical goals are discussed and then related to the more general critical thinking skills of identifying and formulating questions, asking and answering questions, investigating and analyzing data, deducing and judging deductions, inducing and judging inductions, defining terms, and interacting with others. This thesis is based heavily on the …

Teaching Critical And Creative Thinking Skills As Part Of The Technical Communications Curriculum, Anne Harrington

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

I incorporated critical thinking instruction in the writing curriculum by using three writing projects: journal writing, a policy paper on AIDS, and an assignment to evaluate grammar checkers. In their journal writing students both generated and evaluated ideas. In the AIDS project, they reinforced these convergent and divergent thinking skills within the context of a real-world issue. For the software project, students practiced thinking skills in an arena that was more technical and objective, but in which they were evaluating fundamental writing criteria. These diverse assignments, based on a philosophically compatible approach to the teaching of writing, helped students develop …

Writing Toward Understanding, Dianne Gregory

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

The author -- a writer and student of creativity -- sets out to record her creative process while writing a novel and then match it to prevailing creativity theory. However, in her process notes she finds none of the typical concerns of cognitive psychology, such as problem-finding, risk-taking, breaking set, and other heuristics. The three theorists -- Amabile, Perkins, and Howard -- who seemed impressive to the author as a student, turn irrelevant when she reads them through the eyes of a writer-storyteller. From the fatty flesh of her notes and unformed recollections, elements of the author’s own personal process …

Carlisle Memorial Volume, Watson Boone Duncan, Charles Forster Smith, Henry Nelson Snyder, Robert A. Law, David Duncan Wallace

College Books

Table of Contents:

The Carlisle Family

Life Sketch of Dr. Carlisle - by Dr. Charles Forster Smith

Dr. Carlisle as a Citizen - by Watson B. Duncan

The Wofford Chapel Hour - by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder

Wofford College and its President Twenty Years Ago - by Dr. Robert A. Law

Dr. Carlisle as a Teacher - by Dr. David Duncan Wallace

Tributes to Dr. Carlisle