Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life
Richard W. Paul & Linda Elder

16 CPEU or CE hours

Course: $88
Includes book & CE exam

CE exam only: $68
"Download on demand" available

Description
The world gets more complex every day. There's only one way to cope-get smarter. Thinking more effectively gives you greater control over your life, helps you overcome adversity, and makes it easier to transform your dreams into reality.

Effective thinking is no mystery. It consists of practical skills anyone can learn, practice, and improve. This course gives you those skills. The authors show you how to "take thinking apart" and asses it for quality. You'll learn how to improve all three components of thinking-analysis, evaluation and re-thinking. Then, through "brains-on" exercises, you'll discover and hone new thinking skills that'll soon become second nature.

Critical Thinking will help you in hundreds of ways. It will enable you to solve problems more effectively, make better decision, recognize pathological thinking, and avoid being manipulated. Above all, it will give you the confidence and courage to recognize the path that's right for you-and take it.

The course features:

Get smarter-in every part of your life
Practical skills for thinking more clearly-and making more effective decisions
Thinking strategically: using effective thinking to achieve your goals and enhance your life
Evaluating thinking: yours and everyone else's
Overcoming the obstacles to effective thinking
Thinking more effectively in your personal and business relationships
Includes exercises for honing your thinking skills every day

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0130647608
ISBN-13: 9780130647603
Format: Hardcover, 384pp
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall Books
Pub date: 2002

Content
Acknowledgment
Preface
Chapter 1. Thinking in a World of Accelerating, Change and Intensifying Danger
Chapter 2. Becoming a Critic of Your Thinking How Skilled is Your Thinking (Right Now)?
Chapter 3. Becoming A Fair-Minded Thinker
Chapter 4. Self-Understanding
Chapter 5. The First Four Stages of Development: What Level Thinker Are You?
Chapter 6. The Parts of Thinking Reasoning Is Everywhere in Human Life
Chapter 7. The Standards for Thinking
Chapter 8. Design Your Life Fate or Freedom: Which Do You Choose?
Chapter 9. The Art of Making Intelligent Decisions
Chapter 10. Taking Charge of Your Irrational Tendencies
Chapter 11. Monitoring Your Sociocentric Tendencies
Chapter 12. Developing as an Ethical Reasoner
Chapter 13. Analyzing and Evaluating
Chapter 14. The Power and Limits of Professional Knowledge (And of the Disciplines that Underlie Them)
Chapter 15. Strategic Thinking
Glossary: A Guide to Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts
References
Index

Book authors
Dr. Richard W. Paul is Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking, and the Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking. He has authored six books and more than 200 articles on critical thinking. In over 35 years of teaching experience, he has won numerous awards and honors, including Distinguished Perry Lecturer for the year 2000.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist, President for the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. She is highly published and has done original research into the relation of thought and emotion. She is a regular keynoter at the International Conference on Critical Thinking and is a recognized leader in the field.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1070 Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
1130 Verbal communication skills, presentations
1140 Written communication skills, publishing
9010 Data analysis, statistics
9020 Evaluation and application of research
9060 Research development and design
9070 Research instruments and techniques