Library for Students
Welcome the our Library for Students.
In this library we have included the Thinker's Guides and videos designed specifically to help you learn the fundamentals of critical thinking and apply these fundamentals to your work in the classroom and in all parts of life.
There is no specific starting place, so jump in wherever you wish. But you might begin with any of these:
Then go to our Academy and do the activities there to further internalize the ideas!
The key to lifelong learning is to take your own learning into your own hands. This you can do when you command the foundations of critical Thinking.
- The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools
- The Aspiring Thinker's Guide
- The Thinker"s Guide to Analytic Thinking: How to Take Thinking Apart and What to Look for When You Do
- The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline
- Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind: Thinking, Feeling, Wanting, and the Problem of Irrationality
Then go to our Academy and do the activities there to further internalize the ideas!
The key to lifelong learning is to take your own learning into your own hands. This you can do when you command the foundations of critical Thinking.
Thinkers Guides
All of our Thinker's Guides are now published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In this section, you find samples sections from each guide. For the full guides, visit Rowman and Littlefield, (rowman.com)
- The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking
- The Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind
- The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study & Learn a Discipline
- The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning
- The Thinker's Guide to Socratic Questioning
- A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards
- The International Critical Thinking Reading and Writing Test
- The Miniature Guide for Those Who Teach on Practical Ways to Promote Active & Cooperative Learning
- A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads
- Instructor's Guide to Historical Thinking
- Student Guide to Historical Thinking
- The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking
- How to Read a Paragraph: The Art of Close Reading
- How to Write a Paragraph: The Art of Substantive Writing
- A Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts
- The Art of Asking Essential Questions
- The Nature and Functions of Critical & Creative Thinking
- The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking
- Fact over Fake: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda
- The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery
- The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning
- The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning
- The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards
From the journal Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
- Mass Media and Critical Thinking: Reasoning for a Second-Hand World
- Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence
- Critical Thinking and Command of Language
- The Need For Comprehensiveness In Critical Thinking Instruction
- Critical Thinking and the State of Education Today
- Thinking Critically About Identities
- Richard Paul's Contributions to the Field of Critical Thinking Studies and to the Establishment of First Principles in Critical Thinking
- Richard Paul and the Philosophical Foundations of Critical Thinking
- Portaging Richard Paul's Model to Professional Practice: Ideas that Integrate
- Richard Paul's Approach to Critical Thinking: Comprehensiveness, Systematicity, and Practicality
For Students
- Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies
- Developing as Rational Persons: Viewing Our Development in Stages
- How to Study and Learn (Part One)
- How to Study and Learn (Part Two)
- How to Study and Learn (Part Three)
- How to Study and Learn (Part Four)
- The Art of Close Reading (Part One)
- The Art of Close Reading (Part Two)
- The Art of Close Reading (Part Three)
- Looking To The Future With a Critical Eye: A Message for High School Graduates
- Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking
- Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies
- Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies
- Radio Show and Podcast: Critical Thinking for Everyone!
Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
- Distinguishing Between Inert Information, Activated Ignorance, Activated Knowledge
- Critical Thinking: Identifying the Targets
- Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory
- The Elements of Reasoning and the Intellectual Standards
- Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking
- Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking
- Valuable Intellectual Traits
- Universal Intellectual Standards
- Complex Interdisciplinary Questions Exemplified: Ecological Sustainability
Translations
- Arabic - The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- Bulgarian - The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- French - Asking Questions
- French - Elements of Thought
- French - How Skilled Is Your Thinking
- French - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- French - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children
- French - Scientific Thinking
- French - Stages of Development
- French - Strategic Thinking
- French - Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning
- French - Tools for Taking Charge
- French - Universal Intellectual Standards
- German - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- Persian - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- Spanish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children
- Spanish - Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking
- Spanish - Thinker's Guide to Asking Essential Questions
- Spanish - Thinker's Guide to How to Read a Paragraph
- Spanish - Thinker's Guide to How to Study and Learn a Discipline
- Thai - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- Turkish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
- Turkish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children
- Turkish - Thinker's Guide on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda
- Korean - How to Read a Paragraph
- Korean - How to Write a Paragraph
- Korean - Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking
- Persian - The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning
Video Series
Student Video Resources
This collection provides you with an introduction to critical thinking. The videos will help you: 1. understand what is entailed in all reasoning, and therefore in all academic subjects and disciplines, since reasoning is at the heart of all subjects (elements of thought); 2. learn the standards essential to all high quality reasoning (intellectual standards); 3. develop intellectual character (through Intellectual Virtues); 4. guard against the prominent intrinsic barriers to critical thinking (egocentric and sociocentric thinking); 5. learn to provide feedback to peers using the Intellectual Standards.
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This collection provides you with an introduction to critical thinking. The videos will help you: 1. understand what is entailed in all reasoning, and therefore in all academic subjects and disciplines, since reasoning is at the heart of all subjects (elements of thought); 2. learn the standards essential to all high quality reasoning (intellectual standards); 3. develop intellectual character (through Intellectual Virtues); 4. guard against the prominent intrinsic barriers to critical thinking (egocentric and sociocentric thinking); 5. learn to provide feedback to peers using the Intellectual Standards.
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