"First Sit Down and Play the Piano Beautifully ... ": Reading Carefully for Critical Thinking

Authors

  • Moira Gutteridge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v9i2.2664

Abstract

Students in critical thinking courses are often instructed to "read carefully" as a prerequisite to thinking critically. This instruction, which seems like a simple preliminary caution, in fact reveals controversial assumptions about how readers read, and whether critical thinking instruction presupposes the reading skill it purports to teach.

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Published

1987-01-01

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (1987)

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