| Building Our Best Future: Thinking Critically About Ourselves and Our World Contributor(s): Kuhn, Deanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0999064983 ISBN-13: 9780999064986 Publisher: Wessex, Inc. OUR PRICE: $28.22 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - Elementary & Secondary |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.12 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Building Our Best Future by Deanna Kuhn (author of Education for Thinking, Harvard University Press) offers a text written directly to middle and secondary students. It engages them in a method of well-documented effectiveness, using peer dialog to develop verbal and written skills of argument and critical thinking. Simultaneously it engages them in evidence-based decision making regarding 44 topics about their personal futures, the futures of their communities, of their nation, and their world. Provided for each topic is a comprehensive body of factual knowledge, in simple Q&A format, all with further sources. A Teachers Edition, providing further resources including assessment of student skill gains, is complimentary with 10 or more student copies. |