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Thinking: The Foundation of Critical and Creative Learning in the Classroomreviewed by Anne Slonaker - 2006 Title: Thinking: The Foundation of Critical and Creative Learning in the Classroom Author(s): Robert E. Boostrom Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807745693, Pages: 175, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Robert Boostrom introduces Thinking: The Foundation of Critical and Creative Learning in the Classroom by asking, how to recognize, let alone create, classrooms in which students think, classrooms guided by the pursuit of what John Dewey called reflective experience (p. 3). To explore this question, Boostrom considers teaching and learning to think from three commonplaces (p. 5) that he identifies as defining, telling, and believing, to argue that in each of these commonplaces across teaching and learning to think are paradoxes that unwittingly contribute to the practice of non-thinking (p. 3) in classrooms. Boostroms argument is evidenced by practices of non-thinking that emerge from his own compiled multiyear data collected across his work with groups of preservice and in-service educators in his university education classes, as well as with students in K12 classrooms.
Through the first paradox of defining, Boostrom deconstructs the problem of how the historical development of subject disciplines... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Anne Slonaker
Penn State Berks E-mail Author ANNE SLONAKER is an assistant professor of elementary literacy education at Penn State Berks. She is helping to build a new four year urban education elementary teacher education program. Her research interests are in critical autoethnographies and urban elemetary education.
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