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02557aam a22003378i 4500 001 0D3FD33E6B5811E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150309s2015 onc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1771121572 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781771121576 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)898533596 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d YDXCP $d ZLM $d STF $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a LB2395.35 F56x 2015 100 1 $a Finn, Patrick, $d 1966-, $e author. 245 10 $a Critical condition : $b replacing critical thinking with creativity / $c Patrick Finn. 264 1 $a Waterloo, Ontario : $b Wilfrid Laurier University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xiv, 131 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a "critical thinker." The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical "attack" on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence as a means of forcing confession and submission, the early phases of critical thinking were bound up in a type of attack that Finn suggests does not best serve intellectual inquiry. Recent developments have seen critical thinking become an ideology rather than a critical practice, with levels of debate devolving to the point where most debate becomes ad hominem. Far from arguing that we abandon critical inquiry, the author suggests that we emphasize a more open, loving system of engagement that is not only less inherently violent but also more robust when dealing with vastly more complex networks of information. This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world." -- Publisher's description. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 650 0 $a Creative thinking $x Study and teaching (Higher) 650 0 $a Critical thinking $x Study and teaching (Higher) 650 0 $a Thought and thinking $x Study and teaching (Higher) 650 0 $a Creative thinking. 650 0 $a Critical thinking. 650 0 $a Thought and thinking. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203040416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0D3FD33E6B5811E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search