| Richard Paul and Jane Willsen. Accelerating Change, the Complexity of Problems, and the Quality of Our Thinking. In Jane Willsen and A.J.A. Binker, editors, Critical Thinking: how to prepare students for a rapidly changing world, pages 1 -- 16. Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1995. |
....critical thinking as a higher order framework is identified by former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich in his book, The Work of Nations, 31] Reich puts forth four skills in particular: 1) abstraction, 2) system thinking, 3) experimentation and testing, and 4) collaboration. Paul and Willsen in [33] summarize Reich s list of skills as follows: 1. Command of Abstractions The capacity for abstraction for discovering patterns and meanings is, of course, the very essence of symbolic analysis, in which reality must be simplified so that it can be understood and manipulated in new ways : ....
Richard Paul and Jane Willsen. Accelerating Change, the Complexity of Problems, and the Quality of Our Thinking. In Jane Willsen and A.J.A. Binker, editors, Critical Thinking: how to prepare students for a rapidly changing world, pages 1 -- 16. Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1995.
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