This book gives teachers of English Literature an engaging new way into texts, using the skills and approaches of A level Critical Thinking. It also provides teachers of Critical Thinking with useful and stimulating resources with which to practise the skills required at A level. It will also help teachers looking for ways to engage students not drawn to literature, and any teacher trying to improve the analytical skills of their English students. Topics Include- Critical Thinking does poetry - with a little help from John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Philip Larkin - Much Ado About...the credibility of evidence- Hamlet, Cathy and Catherine try to resolve dilemmas; - Isabella, Angelo and Iago compete for the highest marks in Critical Thinking- What's the difference between a metaphor and a lie?- First person narration: who can we trust? Based on practical experience, this book explores the interface between two apparently polarised subjects, one analytical and objective, the other traditionally in the aesthetic and affective domain; one eschewing ambiguity, the other celebrating it. The progeny of this unlikely coupling provides teachers and students of each subject with a stimulating, exciting and unifying way of enhancing their learning.
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`An invaluable teaching resource'
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Belinda Hakes is Head of English at a sixth form college and a teacher of Critical Thinking. A presenter on teachers' courses, she has also written on the meeting of the two subjects in Teaching Thinking and Creativity.
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We hear a lot of talk about the need to deliver the skills of Critical Thinking within subjects. Few resources manage to do this effectively, in large part because those producing them either don't know enough about Critical Thinking or about the subject they're dealing with (or, horribly, both). Fortunately, this is one of the few that manages this inter-relationship very effectively.
The author is obviously very skilled in teaching Literature, with a very wide range of material being offered to the reader. But she is also very obviously entirely competent with Critical Thinking.
The result is a superb marrying of the two. The English teacher should look in a new way at what they're teaching - the analytical and evaluative possibilities are very compelling. Similarly the Critical Thinking teacher will see all sorts of possibilities in using material that he or she wouldn't normally think of using, being often stuck in the groove of collecting 'stuff' from newspapers and magazines.
This is not only a very well-written book. It is, without exaggeration, a book that should make a difference to teachers (and thus to students).
The author is obviously very skilled in teaching Literature, with a very wide range of material being offered to the reader. But she is also very obviously entirely competent with Critical Thinking.
The result is a superb marrying of the two. The English teacher should look in a new way at what they're teaching - the analytical and evaluative possibilities are very compelling. Similarly the Critical Thinking teacher will see all sorts of possibilities in using material that he or she wouldn't normally think of using, being often stuck in the groove of collecting 'stuff' from newspapers and magazines.
This is not only a very well-written book. It is, without exaggeration, a book that should make a difference to teachers (and thus to students).
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