The book presents the innovative concept of the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who actively engages students by orchestrating dynamic and spontaneous learning experiences. This approach emphasizes the teacher's role as a mobilizer and improviser, creating dramatic and unexpected challenges that foster student participation and growth. Through this model, the learning process becomes an adventure, encouraging creativity and collaboration in the classroom.
Thinking Through Questions is an accessible and compact guide to the art of questioning, covering both the use and abuse of questions. Animated by wide-ranging and engaging exercises and examples, the book helps students deepen their understanding of how questions work and what questions do, and builds the skills needed to ask better questions. Cowritten by two of today's leading philosopher-teachers, Thinking Through Questions is specifically designed to complement, connect, and motivate today's standard curricula, especially for classes in critical thinking, philosophical questioning, and creative problem- solving (called here "expansive questioning"). Offering students a wide and appreciative look at questions and questioning, this small book will also appeal to faculty and students across the disciplines: in college writing courses, creativity workshops, education schools, introductions to college thinking, design thinking projects, and humanities and thinking classes. Open-ended, creative, and critically self-possessed thinking is its constant theme--what field doesn't need more of that?
Exploring innovative and bold approaches, this book challenges conventional views of environmentalism. It presents transformative ideas that redefine our relationship with nature, encouraging readers to consider new possibilities for sustainability and ecological consciousness. Through thought-provoking insights, it pushes the envelope on how we can engage with and protect our environment in today's world.
"A Practical Companion to Ethics is a concise and accessible introduction to the basic attitudes and skills that make ethics work, like thinking for oneself, creative and integrative problem-solving, and keeping an open mind. This unique volume illuminates the broad kinds of practical intelligence required in moral judgment, complementing the narrower theoretical considerations that often dominate ethics courses. In fact, the book only devotes one chapter (Ch. 3) to traditional ethical theories. It instead focuses on practical instruction in problem-solving by demonstrating how to frame an ethical problem and deal effectively with ethical disagreements. The book also presents ethics as an ongoing learning experience, helping students to deal with both the complexities of their individual lives and with the larger issues that exist in the world around them. It is a hands-on, personal, and optimistic book. Weston will revise the book in light of the reviews. He plans to expand the ethical theory chapter to include the ethics of care; expand the issues covered to include collective responsibility to future generations, e.g., climate change; reorient chapter 6 to focus more on practical action at a larger scale rather than just at the individual level; and somewhat expand guidance on building moral arguments"--
Focusing on pragmatic environmental philosophy, these collected essays advocate for reconstruction and imaginative approaches over deconstruction and analysis. The author emphasizes the need for innovative thinking in addressing environmental issues, encouraging readers to envision new possibilities for a sustainable future.
A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer--translated into eight languages--remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples and topics throughout.
Useful for college courses in critical thinking, this how-to book offers a set of thinking skills: multiplying options, brainstorming, lateral thinking, reframing problems, and others. These skills are reinforced by applications and exercises, covering a range of topics, from the annoyance of everyday life to the largest issues on the world stage.
The book presents an imaginative exploration of philosophy's potential in the new Millennium, emphasizing the 'hidden possibilities' within human and non-human interactions. It proposes a rethinking of ethics through a 'possibilistic' lens and advocates for innovative teaching methods. By reviewing various works and authors, the text serves as a bold vision for what philosophy could evolve into, igniting a desire for a transformative approach to philosophical inquiry and practice.