Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics. Preliminary hypothesesLouis de Saussure
de Saussure Louis (2005). Manipulation and Cognitive Pragmatics: Preliminary
Hypotheses. In de Saussure Louis & Peter Schulz (Eds), Manipulation and Ideologies
in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, Language, Mind, Amsterdam-Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 113-146.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17
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Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics. Preliminary hypothesesLouis de Saussure
de Saussure Louis (2005). Manipulation and Cognitive Pragmatics: Preliminary
Hypotheses. In de Saussure Louis & Peter Schulz (Eds), Manipulation and Ideologies
in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, Language, Mind, Amsterdam-Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 113-146.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 17
Uncorrected first proofs. Please refer to original text.
A technology architecture for managing explicit knowledge over the entire lif...William Hall
This slide set summarizes my work at Tenix Defence from around 1992 through 2002 to manage the authoring and delivery of maintenance documentation and engineering technical data to support life-cycle management of the 10 ANZAC frigates Tenix built for the Australian and New Zealand Navies and more than 300 M113 light-armored vehicles rebuilt as-new for the Australian Army. Today (in 2013) this is still a state-of-the-art application of the content management technology. So far as I know, the full benefit of this technology (as described in this 2002 presentation) has not yet been realized anywhere in the world.
Arguably, implementation of this technology played a major role in the successful completion of the ANZAC Ship Project 17 years after its stringently fixed-price contract was negotiated in 1989. Finished on-time, on budget, with every ship delivered on-time to happy customers and a healthy corporate profit. Unfortunately, Tenix Defence management failed to understand how this system worked, and chose to implement new, supposedly less expensive technology they thought they understood for their next major project. As a consequence of this choice and the failure to transfer human knowledge developed in the ANZAC Project the company’s performance on their next large project (but still less than 10% the size of the ANZAC Project) was so bad that Tenix Defence was closed and its assets sold to the highest bidder. See Hall, W.P., Nousala, S., Kilpatrick B. 2009. One company – two outcomes: knowledge integration vs corporate disintegration in the absence of knowledge management. VINE: The journal of information and knowledge management systems 39(3), 242-258 - http://tinyurl.com/yzgjew4; and Hall, W.P., Richards, G., Sarelius, C., Kilpatrick, B. 2008. Organisational management of project and technical knowledge over fleet lifecycles. Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 5(2):81-95 - http://tinyurl.com/5d2lz7.
Academia has a mixed reaction to collaborative work. On the one hand, it is a practice widely used by academics; on the other hand students are warned against the evils of plagiarism. This paper will look at these seemingly paradoxical attitudes and ask how, if at all, student learning can be both collaboratively generated yet individually original, and also how the products of a collaboratively generated student submission could be formally assessed. I’m going to begin by briefly looking at two different views about the role of the scholar in HE and then considering two different ideas about originality. After that I’m going to look at how collaboration works in the Sciences before highlighting some collaborative practices in the Humanities. I’ll end by asking what type of learning design could support a collaborative approach to learning in the Arts and Humanities and suggesting a couple of promising ones.
Common misconceptions of critical thinkingSHARON BAILIN, RLynellBull52
Common misconceptions of critical thinking
SHARON BAILIN, ROLAND CASE,
JERROLD R. COOMBS and LEROI B. DANIELS
In this paper, the ® rst of two, we analyse three widely-held conceptions of critical
thinking: as one or more skills, as mental processes, and as sets of procedures. Each
view is, we contend, wrong-headed, misleading or, at best, unhelpful. Some who write
about critical thinking seem to muddle all three views in an unenlightening me lange.
Apart from the errors or inadequacies of the conceptions themselves, they promote or
abet misconceived practices for teaching critical thinking. Together, they have led to
the view that critical thinking is best taught by practising it. We o� er alternative
proposals for the teaching of critical thinking.
Critical thinking is a subject of considerable current interest, both in terms
of theory and pedagogy. A great deal is written about critical thinking,
conferences on the subject abound, and educational initiatives aimed at
fostering critical thinking proliferate.1 It is our view that much of the
theoretical work and many of the pedagogical endeavours in this area are
misdirected because they are based on faulty conceptions of critical think-
ing. Critical thinking is frequently conceptualized in terms of skills, pro-
cesses, procedures and practice. Much of the educational literature either
refers to cognitive or thinking skills or equates critical thinking with certain
mental processes or procedural moves that can be improved through
practice. In this paper we attempt to explain the misconceptions inherent
in such ways of conceptualizing critical thinking. It is important to note
that much of the literature contains a pervasive miasma of overlapping uses
of such terms as skill, process, procedure, behaviour, mental operations,
j. curriculum studies, 1999, vol. 31, no. 3, 269± 283
S haron Bailin, a professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, is interested in philosophical inquiries into critical
thinking, creativity and aesthetic education. Her publications include Reason and V alues:
New Essays in Philosophy of Education (Calgary, AB: Detselig, 1993), co-edited with John P.
Portelli.
Roland Case, an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
conducts research in social studies and legal and global education. His most recent book is
The Canadian Anthology of Social S tudies: Issues and S trategies (Burnaby, BC: Faculty of
Education, Simon Fraser University), co-edited with Penney Clark.
Jerrold R. Coombs, a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia,
has published extensively on ethical issues in education and the development of competence
in practical reasoning. His publications include Applied Ethics: A Reader (Oxford: Black-
well, 1993), co-edited with Earl R. Winkler.
L eRoi B. Daniels, a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of British
Columbia, ...
Common misconceptions of critical thinkingSHARON BAILIN, R.docxclarebernice
Common misconceptions of critical thinking
SHARON BAILIN, ROLAND CASE,
JERROLD R. COOMBS and LEROI B. DANIELS
In this paper, the ®rst of two, we analyse three widely-held conceptions of critical
thinking: as one or more skills, as mental processes, and as sets of procedures. Each
view is, we contend, wrong-headed, misleading or, at best, unhelpful. Some who write
about critical thinking seem to muddle all three views in an unenlightening meÂlange.
Apart from the errors or inadequacies of the conceptions themselves, they promote or
abet misconceived practices for teaching critical thinking. Together, they have led to
the view that critical thinking is best taught by practising it. We oÄer alternative
proposals for the teaching of critical thinking.
Critical thinking is a subject of considerable current interest, both in terms
of theory and pedagogy. A great deal is written about critical thinking,
conferences on the subject abound, and educational initiatives aimed at
fostering critical thinking proliferate.1 It is our view that much of the
theoretical work and many of the pedagogical endeavours in this area are
misdirected because they are based on faulty conceptions of critical think-
ing. Critical thinking is frequently conceptualized in terms of skills, pro-
cesses, procedures and practice. Much of the educational literature either
refers to cognitive or thinking skills or equates critical thinking with certain
mental processes or procedural moves that can be improved through
practice. In this paper we attempt to explain the misconceptions inherent
in such ways of conceptualizing critical thinking. It is important to note
that much of the literature contains a pervasive miasma of overlapping uses
of such terms as skill, process, procedure, behaviour, mental operations,
j. curriculum studies
, 1999, vol. 31, no. 3, 269±283
S haron Bailin, a professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, is interested in philosophical inquiries into critical
thinking, creativity and aesthetic education. Her publications include Reason and V alues:
New Essays in Philosophy of Education (Calgary, AB: Detselig, 1993), co-edited with John P.
Portelli.
Roland Case, an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
conducts research in social studies and legal and global education. His most recent book is
The Canadian Anthology of Social S tudies: Issues and S trategies (Burnaby, BC: Faculty of
Education, Simon Fraser University), co-edited with Penney Clark.
Jerrold R. Coombs, a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia,
has published extensively on ethical issues in education and the development of competence
in practical reasoning. His publications include Applied Ethics: A Reader (Oxford: Black-
well, 1993), co-edited with Earl R. Winkler.
L eRoi B. Daniels, a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of British
Columbia, is ...
This is a short version of the CRITHINKEDU educational protocol to support the development of critical thinking in higher education institutions. For more information, please read the full document at http://bit.ly/2XpF87r
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Academia has a mixed reaction to collaborative work. On the one hand, it is a practice widely used by academics; on the other hand students are warned against the evils of plagiarism. This paper will look at these seemingly paradoxical attitudes and ask how, if at all, student learning can be both collaboratively generated yet individually original, and also how the products of a collaboratively generated student submission could be formally assessed. I’m going to begin by briefly looking at two different views about the role of the scholar in HE and then considering two different ideas about originality. After that I’m going to look at how collaboration works in the Sciences before highlighting some collaborative practices in the Humanities. I’ll end by asking what type of learning design could support a collaborative approach to learning in the Arts and Humanities and suggesting a couple of promising ones.
Common misconceptions of critical thinkingSHARON BAILIN, RLynellBull52
Common misconceptions of critical thinking
SHARON BAILIN, ROLAND CASE,
JERROLD R. COOMBS and LEROI B. DANIELS
In this paper, the ® rst of two, we analyse three widely-held conceptions of critical
thinking: as one or more skills, as mental processes, and as sets of procedures. Each
view is, we contend, wrong-headed, misleading or, at best, unhelpful. Some who write
about critical thinking seem to muddle all three views in an unenlightening me lange.
Apart from the errors or inadequacies of the conceptions themselves, they promote or
abet misconceived practices for teaching critical thinking. Together, they have led to
the view that critical thinking is best taught by practising it. We o� er alternative
proposals for the teaching of critical thinking.
Critical thinking is a subject of considerable current interest, both in terms
of theory and pedagogy. A great deal is written about critical thinking,
conferences on the subject abound, and educational initiatives aimed at
fostering critical thinking proliferate.1 It is our view that much of the
theoretical work and many of the pedagogical endeavours in this area are
misdirected because they are based on faulty conceptions of critical think-
ing. Critical thinking is frequently conceptualized in terms of skills, pro-
cesses, procedures and practice. Much of the educational literature either
refers to cognitive or thinking skills or equates critical thinking with certain
mental processes or procedural moves that can be improved through
practice. In this paper we attempt to explain the misconceptions inherent
in such ways of conceptualizing critical thinking. It is important to note
that much of the literature contains a pervasive miasma of overlapping uses
of such terms as skill, process, procedure, behaviour, mental operations,
j. curriculum studies, 1999, vol. 31, no. 3, 269± 283
S haron Bailin, a professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, is interested in philosophical inquiries into critical
thinking, creativity and aesthetic education. Her publications include Reason and V alues:
New Essays in Philosophy of Education (Calgary, AB: Detselig, 1993), co-edited with John P.
Portelli.
Roland Case, an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
conducts research in social studies and legal and global education. His most recent book is
The Canadian Anthology of Social S tudies: Issues and S trategies (Burnaby, BC: Faculty of
Education, Simon Fraser University), co-edited with Penney Clark.
Jerrold R. Coombs, a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia,
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in practical reasoning. His publications include Applied Ethics: A Reader (Oxford: Black-
well, 1993), co-edited with Earl R. Winkler.
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thinking: as one or more skills, as mental processes, and as sets of procedures. Each
view is, we contend, wrong-headed, misleading or, at best, unhelpful. Some who write
about critical thinking seem to muddle all three views in an unenlightening meÂlange.
Apart from the errors or inadequacies of the conceptions themselves, they promote or
abet misconceived practices for teaching critical thinking. Together, they have led to
the view that critical thinking is best taught by practising it. We oÄer alternative
proposals for the teaching of critical thinking.
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conferences on the subject abound, and educational initiatives aimed at
fostering critical thinking proliferate.1 It is our view that much of the
theoretical work and many of the pedagogical endeavours in this area are
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ing. Critical thinking is frequently conceptualized in terms of skills, pro-
cesses, procedures and practice. Much of the educational literature either
refers to cognitive or thinking skills or equates critical thinking with certain
mental processes or procedural moves that can be improved through
practice. In this paper we attempt to explain the misconceptions inherent
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that much of the literature contains a pervasive miasma of overlapping uses
of such terms as skill, process, procedure, behaviour, mental operations,
j. curriculum studies
, 1999, vol. 31, no. 3, 269±283
S haron Bailin, a professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, is interested in philosophical inquiries into critical
thinking, creativity and aesthetic education. Her publications include Reason and V alues:
New Essays in Philosophy of Education (Calgary, AB: Detselig, 1993), co-edited with John P.
Portelli.
Roland Case, an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
conducts research in social studies and legal and global education. His most recent book is
The Canadian Anthology of Social S tudies: Issues and S trategies (Burnaby, BC: Faculty of
Education, Simon Fraser University), co-edited with Penney Clark.
Jerrold R. Coombs, a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia,
has published extensively on ethical issues in education and the development of competence
in practical reasoning. His publications include Applied Ethics: A Reader (Oxford: Black-
well, 1993), co-edited with Earl R. Winkler.
L eRoi B. Daniels, a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education, University of British
Columbia, is ...
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1. The transfer and transferability
of critical thinking skills
Assoc. Prof. Daniela Dumitru, PhD
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Teacher Training Department
World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, 2018
2. Summary
• Is CT domain specific or domain-free?
• Presenting a debate between representatives of philosophical
formalism (universalism) - Ennis (as well as by Siegel, Paul, and
Norris), and anti-formalism, represented by McPeck, who goes by the
lines of Toulmin (1958) and Wittgenstein (1953) concerning the
transferability of CT skills.
• Philosophers, a special case of CT transferability.
3. CT and teaching CT
• Contemporary definition: starts with J. Dewey, early 20th century.
Reflective thinking.
• Teaching CT.
• Ennis (1989):
• the general approach: focuses on teaching critical thinking, on
forming critical thinking apart from the specific content of subject
matters;
• the infusion approach: presupposes the encouragement of students
to think critically within each subject matter in which the general
principles of critical thinking are explicitly formulated;
4. • the immersion approach: students are immersed in the respective
domain without being specifically referred to the principles of critical
thinking (Prawat, 1991);
• the mixed approach is a mixture between the general approach and
one of the other two approaches presented above, immersion or the
infusion approach.
5. • McPeck criticizes the standard approach to critical thinking
maintaining that it is a universal and transferable capacity
(1990).
• Ennis’ answer is a nuanced one. He says that there are three
forms in which the specificity of the domain is defined.
• And any discussion about the transfer of critical thinking
skills has to begin from the vision on specificity that we
adopt.
6. The empirical domain specificity
When there is an empirical difference between the domains
in question we have to:
• (i) have background knowledge;
• (ii) have the capacity to transfer:
• (a) the simple transfer of critical thinking skills and dispositions form one
domain to another is impossible;
• (b) anyway, the transfer becomes feasible if: 1. there is sufficient practice in
several domains; 2. there is training concentrating on the transfer;
• (iii) have overall instruction.
7. Epistemological Specificity
It claims that credible arguments are domain dependent and that
critical thinking consequently varies from one domain to another.
• This boils down to the following:
• (i) knowledge in the domain: in order to be able to think critically
within one domain one has to have knowledge within that domain.
• (ii) interdisciplinary variability: good arguments are domain
dependent; they may vary from one domain to another;
• (iii) full understanding of the domain: this is a necessary condition if
one is to think critically within a domain.
8. Conceptual Specificity
• Ennis claims that certain concepts are common to several disciplines
and that the specificity of domains from this point of view is much
vaguer than in the case of the other specificity criteria.
• So conceptual specificity is much more problematic than the others.
9. • McPeck (1990) states that ‘thinking always comes down to thinking
about something’ and that the phrases ‘to teach thinking’ or
‘teaching someone how to think’ are meaningless.
• He states that if one is to consider formal logic as an example, which
is the most prone to transferability, this is irrelevant for some
domains in the sense that its usage is not an abstract capacity as the
domain of formal logic is, but a part of what we call “rational
thinking” in certain domains or disciplines.
• Evans (1982) and Glaser (1984) have demonstrated through
experimental research that the transfer of logic abilities is as
problematic as any other transfer.
10. • Ennis contradicts McPeck:
• if one says “All As are Bs, which amounts to saying that if something is
not B that something is not A either”, where A and B are variables
which may be replaced with any concrete object, this statement is
about A and B without being related to a certain domain or topic or
object.
• One can teach and talk about a principle without relying on a certain
content.
• McPeck briefly answers that it involves “an A and a B, therefore this
thinking is about something”.
11. Hence…
• McPeck thinks that the forms of critical thinking are in direct
proportion with the topics, whereas Ennis believes that there is a
general ability called critical thinking just as Logic is universal.
• McPeck does not even accept that Logic is the one which governs
argumentation in specific domains, claiming that this falls under the
authority of Epistemology,
• He opt for a thinking that is natural, applied and contextualized to
objects of study or to topics of discussion.
12. • McPeck shows where the mistake in the standard vision on
critical thinking lies:
• there is a confusion between “logical subsuming” and
“psychological transfer”.
• In other words, if a sum of logical principles is found in each
domain and if the domains have to subject to these
principles, this does not mean that one has to infer that the
transfer is done on the basis of these logical principles,
because this transfer is psychological in its essence and not
logical.
13. • The fact that we accept the existence of domain organization
according to logical principles (whatever that might mean),
does not mean that once we have managed to isolate these
universal principles within a domain on which we are expert,
these principles will be automatically transferred to other
domains and to daily life.
• There has to be a way to render particular to a domain all
“principles”, which do not seem to be as psychologically
universal as they are theoretically and logically universal.
14. • How do the authors characterize one another?
• McPeck characterizes Ennis’ view according to which there is
a general capacity labeled critical thinking, as being a naïve
logical positivism (1989, 1990b),
• whereas Richard Paul, a supporter of the existence of a
general capacity for critical thinking just like Ennis, blames
McPeck for logical atomism (in McPeck, 1990a).
15. • We have to agree with Ennis when he states that we need
thorough research in order to decide on what is being
transferred and on what exactly is much too specific to be
transferred from one domain to another.
• And also agree that the undertaking of defining the term
“domain” is troublesome and that we cannot transcend the
vagueness of this term and decide on the boundaries of a
domain.
16. An instantiation of critical thinking transfer:
philosophers
• How can they discuss with the same acuteness about almost
anything?
• We might think that this is a success story of transfer.
• Actually, it might very well be that this case precisely has had
scholars assert that critical thinking is made up of universal
principles that may be transferred from one domain to
another.
17. • I believe this presupposition to be false.
• Philosophers’ job is to focus on argumentation, on
performing a critical exercise on anything.
• Philosophers look for the principles and the argumentative
construction of any speech.
• We cannot have the same expectations from any other
individual who has not been trained accordingly and who
does not have the necessary structural motivation to reflect,
to find principles and to assess their strength.
18. • A specialist on the domain or a student who is studying a
domain does not question the axioms of the discipline, nor
does he ask questions about the empirical, conceptual and
epistemological make-up of their domain.
• They do not actually know that there are such dimensions
concerning the specifics of a discipline. They simply function
within a space which they take for granted.
19. • Asking ourselves why philosophers can perform the transfer
is like asking why the tailors have scissors whereas the
mechanics have spanners.
• It is because this is what they do and we cannot extrapolate
this case of successful transfer to all domains.
20. Current research
• “Critical Thinking Across European Higher Education Curricula –
CRITHINKEDU”, an European Commission Erasmus+ grant, no. 2016-1-
PT01-KA203-022808. http://crithinkedu.utad.pt/en/resources/
• Research reports:
• Dominguez, C. (coord.) (2018a). A European collection of the Critical
Thinking skills and dispositions needed in different professional fields
for the 21st century. Vila Real: UTAD. ISBN: 978-989-704-256-0
• Dominguez, C. (coord.) (2018b). A European review on Critical
Thinking educational practices in Higher Education Institutions. Vila
Real: UTAD. ISBN: 978-989-704-258-4
• Dominguez, C. (coord.) (2018c). The CRITHINKEDU European course
on critical thinking education for university teachers: from conception
to delivery. Vila Real: UTAD. ISBN: 978-989-704-274-4
21. Conclusions
• It is acceptable to think that there are certain principles which we can
transfer, but which are few and which need to be checked through
experimental research cum grano salis.
• We cannot claim that CT skills are transferable base on philosophers
case or, broadly speaking, base on academics or researchers case.