Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions, Hardcover

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praise for previous books by stephen d. brookfield

"Award-winning author Stephen Brookfield offers insight, inspiration, and down-to-earth advice to all teachers in settingsas diverse as college, adult education, and secondaryschools--on how to thrive on the unpredictability of classroomlife."--Better Teaching

"The author relates] some of his own personal experiences as aneducator in encouraging critical thinking. His insight and honestyin relating these experiences is valuable andinteresting."--CBE Report

"Brookfield's book will serve as an effective focus that canfacilitate faculty in thinking critically about their work, theircommunity, their relationships, not only individually butcollaboratively."--Teaching Sociology

"He offers clear, jargon-free, and unpretentious guidance."--Reference & Research Book News

"The author is so darned good at finding and highlighting thekey research." --Training

"Brookfield illustrates practically his major scholarly interestin this readable, innovative, and perceptive book on collegeteaching."--Choice

About the author

Stephen D. Brookfield is Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For forty years he has taught in the United States and abroad. A four-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching, including The Skillful Teacher and Developing Critical Thinkers.