The Teaching of ThinkingFirst published in 1985. This book was created due to involvement of the authors to develop a course to enhance thinking skills. A main aim of which was to determine what is known about the teaching of thinking from current research literature and from the results of efforts to develop cognitive enhancement programs. The primary focus is on intentional, purposeful, goal-oriented thinking-thinking, if you will, for the express purpose of realizing some specific objective. |
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
145 | 40 |
Can Thinking Skills be Taught? | 59 |
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