The Generalizability of Critical Thinking: Multiple Perspectives on an Educational Ideal

Abstract

Introduction : The generalizability question / Stephen P. Norris -- The degree to which critical thinking is subject specific : clarification and needed research / Robert H. Ennis -- The problem of defining critical thinking / Ralph H. Johnson -- The role of conceptual access in the transfer of thinking skills / Robert S. Lockhart -- Finding generalizable strategies in scientific theory debates / James Ryan -- Discovery, justification, and the generalizability question / Sharon Bailin -- The generalizability of critical thinking skills, dispositions, and epistemology / Harvey Siegel -- Reasoning by analogy : a general theory / David Hitchcock -- The generalizability of critical thinking : the evaluation of sources / J. Anthony Blair -- The generalizability of self-regulatory thinking strategies / Linda M. Phillips. Critical thinking for a humane world / Jane Roland Martin -- Critical thinking as critical discourse / David R. Olson and Nandita Babu -- Thoughts on subject specificity / John E. McPeck -- Contextual limits on reasoning and testing for critical thinking -- Charles V. Blatz.