What Do We Mean by Critical Thinking?
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anderscj"The child comes to school eager and curious about beginning to learn how to acquire and think about competencies o... http://t.co/IAl2aYt
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Sheila Stewart@anderscj and then something contrary to that happens somewhere along the way? 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@SheilaSpeaking they encounter an environment that is incondusive 52 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"When critics inveigh against schools because their students do not know how to think, to be critical thinkers, the... http://t.co/QAYivQJ 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The question that the critics do not ask is how come preschoolers are the thinkers they are?" Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The most glaring feature of the preschooler's daily existence is that he or she is active: exploring and doing, mo... http://t.co/MTbXm6C 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Placing constraints on movements of young children engenders resistance because for the child it is also a constra... http://t.co/KofwQBd 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"What a child acquires by passively watching TV is not the same as what he learns by self-initiated activity." Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"When the child starts school his psychological situation changes dramatically. First, he is restricted to being in... http://t.co/ptsNvnQ 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Third, he cannot talk when he wants to, except to the teacher...Fourth, it is made crystal clear to him that his t... http://t.co/mANKqZL 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Teachers teach the way they were taught to teach, and the nature and power of the school culture reinforce what th... http://t.co/fz4MjCz 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Ever since the standards and accountability movement began to pick up steam, the words critical thinking are absen... http://t.co/knCpYeR 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The parental-pedagogical task is to plant the seeds for critical thinking or, to put it in another way, how you av... http://t.co/ehqB1z9 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"If you take the obvious seriously, you then have to confront the question: What are the distinguishing features of... http://t.co/uXW3gU7 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"You cannot say a student is thinking critically or uncritically unless he makes his thinking public in some form i... http://t.co/BavPBs7 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Keep in mind that the act of taking a test is not an act of learning, it is a response to items which others deeme... http://t.co/ZB3Ozo8 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"By themselves test scores tell you absolutely nothing about the classroom context of learning for students." Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"The seeds of what becomes critical thinking are implanted in the preschool years and their sprouts begin to become discernible." Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"if the teacher can safely tell a student he is wrong and unfair, why can't the student tell a teacher he is wrong and unfair?" Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"Labeling too frequently has the consequence of creating boundaries, as if they exist apart from other things" Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"No parent will prevent a child from crawling because they want him ton walk instead." Sarason 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"A below-average teacher with a class of twenty-five students is as likely to be a below-average teacher with fifte... http://t.co/Hx7sMJR 52 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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Sheila Stewart@anderscj oh good, you are reading earlier tonight...:) 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@SheilaSpeaking the girls are starting to get on the back to school bed time schedule. Means I read earlier. 52 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto
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Laura McInerney#ff @MrDavidDawson my favourite actor (he put a nail through Luther's hand!); @anderscj reads education books so you don't have to 52 days ago via SocialOomph · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@miss_mcinerney @MrDavidDawson That's not really why I read education books. I hope to motivate others to read as well. :) 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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Laura McInerney@anderscj Ha! Loving your Sarason tweets though. I've read his entire works but great to have it chunked for daily consumption too! 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@miss_mcinerney you have read Sarason's entire works? Wow! Hasn't he written something like 43 books? 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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Laura McInerney@anderscj And you've inspired me to read Sizer. 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@miss_mcinerney Glad to hear it :) 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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Laura McInerney@anderscj To be fair, I've not read all the community psych ones, but all the edu ones and most others. Even his very thick biography. 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@miss_mcinerney this is my 2nd Sarason book. I also read Revisiting: The Problem of School Change. 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj@miss_mcinerney I just about threw the book across the room when I read the passage where he admitted that he never revises his work. 52 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto
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