Teaching Critical Thinking in the Context of Political Rhetoric

"Written at a time when news can be fake and facts can have alternatives, this book provides teachers with innovative research-based instructional strategies that help students learn how to think through complex questions in a deliberate and informed way. It is a timely and valuable resource for practitioners who are looking for effective ways to address a pressing educational priority: teaching students how to critically evaluate various types of information and reach a sound conclusion. Importantly, the book treats teachers as co-inquirers, who reflect on their own thinking and continue to learn with their students. Alina Reznitskaya Professor Department of Educational Foundations Montclair State University, New Jersey In this brief volume, Dr. Sanacore provides a desperately needed reprieve from the onslaught of teaching guides that focus on ""delivering content"" and scalability, and guides us through some of the ways we can help to foster more critical engagement from our students. Some of the specifics here are likely to be familiar to those who have teaching experience--indeed, some of them have been used over millennia in one form or another--but even the most experienced teachers will find something useful to draw on and to help improve not what their students know, but how they know. It is the sort of book you keep nearby when you need a reminder of what is important about teaching, and how you can contribute to the lives of your students and to our broader discourse through your choices in the classroom. Alexander Halavais Associate Professor of Data & Society New College, Arizona State University"