Faith and Reason Nicole Saunders 19/4/07 This is a Philosophy of Religion teaching exercise for first-year university students who have basic familiarity with Rationale, but are not studying a dedicated critical thinking course. The exercise is based around an extract from a set text: Michael Scriven’s Primary Philosophy (McGraw-Hill 1966, pp. 98-102). Here’s a copy…
Tertiary Anthropology Controversy over the universality of human facial expressions. Facial expressions.rtnl Philosophy Faith and Reason – an exercise for use in undergraduate philosophy subject The fundamentalist paradox – the case for a new brand of fundamentalism – “democratic pluralistic fundamentalism” Logical Blunders – taken from the comic “Dilbert” by Scott Adams. Critical Thinking ‘Professor Regan’s…
Secondary schools Assessment sticky notes Debating templates The Thinking Process – windfarms example (about year 9) The Thinking Process – history example (about Year 11) Commerce & Economics Monetary policy years 10 & 11 grouping map Budgetary policy years 10 & 11 grouping map English Frankenstein the man was worse than his monster! Frankenstein.rtnl Issues – are school…
A map for kids to relate their immediate environment with a broader social issue. The basis boxes are blank – this could be used as a template in order to decide what sources or evidence support each claim. recycling.rtnl (If this window is open in your browser, you can drag this file onto your workspace to edit it)…
Yiannakis Vassiliades Postgraduate student Curriculum and Instruction University of Cyprus Project : Testing Rationale as a means of improving critical thinking skills at primary level Contact : yiannakis.vassiliades@cytanet.com.cy 14th March 2007. “I began my research with a pre-test. The results showed that the students who participated did not posses the basic skills of critical thinking and argumentation…
Abstract Québec, one of the provinces of Canada, has a pretty stable percentage of the population (between 40 to 45%) who wants it’s independance. For some 30 years, a referendum was the commonly agreed way to make this important decision. A political think tank, le RIQ (Rassemblement pour l’indépendance du Québec) has another proposition: a double…
Vous avez lu le texte Cartographie argumentaire: pour mieux structurer la pensée? Très bien. On poursuit. Dans un De la pertinence d’une élection décisionnelle pour faire l’indépendance du Québec, vous pourrez voir sous forme graphique, une carte argumentaire au sujet de la validité de procéder à l’indépendance du Québec via une élection décisionnelle. Oui, mais comment…
Un groupe de réflexion politique, le RIQ, a produit un document de qualité à propos d’un projet de Pacte. L’argumentaire est disponible sur leur site (version html,version pdf) Quelle est la valeur de cet argumentaire? Quelles en sont les forces? Quels points peuvent être améliorés ou débattus? La prose, à savoir le texte conventionnel, peut…