Teaching Thinking Skills

<i>Teaching Thinking Skills</i> by Steve Johnson was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2000. In this new edition Johnson has updated his argument Harvey Siegel has contributed a counter-argument and Christopher Winch has provided a foreword and afterword drawing the debates together.<br/><br/>The issues debated in this new edition of <i>Teaching Thinking Skills</i> include: <br/>Do thinking skills exist?<br/>What are the aims of education?<br/>Can thinking skill be taught?<br/>Are thinking skills transferable?<br/><br/><i>Teaching Thinking Skills</i> raises issues not only for those concerned with thinking skills <i>per se</i> but more broadly for those concerned with the role of thinking in professional and vocational activities and with the extent to which abilities are broad or narrow transferable or non-transferable.