Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2
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Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2

Social and Natural Sciences

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eBook - PDF

Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2

Social and Natural Sciences

About this book

Provides educators with practical strategies, tools, and techniques for teaching critical reading skills to students in the social and natural sciences.

Strong critical reading skills are an essential part of any student's academic success. Teaching these vital skills requires educators to develop and implement effective teaching strategies, often based on their own critical reading practices. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences provides educators with expert insights, real-world methods, and proven strategies to build critical reading skills in students across disciplines. Drawing from the experience of seasoned classroom practitioners, this book presents a dozen essays that offer various applications of critical reading best practices in fields such as anthropology, biology, economics, engineering, political science, and sociology.

Clear, jargon-free chapters identify, explain, and illustrate best teaching practices for critical reading. Containing numerous practical examples and demonstrations, essays written by experts in their respective fields explain what critical reading requires for their discipline, as well as how to teach those skills in the classroom. Every essay includes a host of pedagogical activities, assignments, and projects that can be used directly or adapted for diverse teaching applications. This valuable book helps educators:

  • Develop the skills students need to ask the right questions, consider sources, assess evidence, evaluate arguments, and reason critically
  • Encourage students to practice critical reading skills with engaging exercises and activities
  • Teach students to establish context and identify contextual connections
  • Explain how to read for arguments, including content-based and conceptual arguments
  • Adapt and apply teaching strategies to various curricula and disciplines

Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences is an ideal resource for educators in a wide range of areas, such as college and high school instructors in science and social science disciplines and instructors of graduate education courses.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Notes onĀ Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Reading Like an Anthropologist
  8. Chapter 2 Developing Proficiency in Economics Through Critical Reading
  9. Chapter 3 Searching for StoryReading in Science
  10. Chapter 4 How to Read a Photograph, a Passport, a Product Sample, and a Patent: Teaching with STEM Archives
  11. Chapter 5 Critical Reading in Political Science
  12. Chapter 6 Minor Data: Reading the ā€œSmartā€ City Through Engaged Pedagogy
  13. Chapter 7 Critical Reading in Sociology: Developing Confidence to Know the World
  14. Chapter 8 Critical Reading in Business Education
  15. Chapter 9 How to Read a Scientific Article: The QDAFI Method of Structured Relevant Gist
  16. Chapter 10 A Political Science Pedagogy of Critical Cosmopolitanism
  17. Chapter 11 Text(ured) Considerations: Critical Reading in its Digital and Social Contexts
  18. Chapter 12 Transparency, Encouragement, and Autonomy: Teaching Critically Engaged Reading in Sociology
  19. Chapter 13 Critical Reading with STS: Interdisciplinary Inspiration for the Science Classroom
  20. Index
  21. EULA