Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2 - Social and Natural Sciences

Informationen zum Autor ANTON BORST, PHD, is an instructional consultant and faculty developer at NYU's center for teaching and learning, and has taught literature and writing at Hunter College, Baruch College, and Pace University. He is co-editor with Robert DiYanni of?? Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume I: Humanities . ROBERT DiYANNI, PHD, is a professor of Humanities at New York University and an instructional consultant at NYU's center for teaching and learning. He is author of Critical and Creative Thinking: A Brief Guide for Teachers and co-editor with Anton Borst of Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume I: Humanities . Klappentext 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 disciplinesCritical 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. Zusammenfassung 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...

List of contents

Notes on Contributors ix
 
Preface xiii
 
Acknowledgments xviii
 
1 Reading Like an Anthropologist 1
Noelle Molé Liston
 
Anthropology as Over-the-Shoulder Reading 1
 
Empathetic Reading 4
 
Reading for Argument 7
 
Towards Non-Linear Reading and Representations of Texts 7
 
Reading for Content-Based Argument versus Conceptual Argument 9
 
Reading Context as Argument 11
 
Establishing Context: An Example 12
 
Reading Media Sources Like an Anthropologist 13
 
Classroom Activity: Competing Contextual Arguments 16
 
References 17
 
2 Developing Proficiency in Economics Through Critical Reading 18
Anna Shostya and Joseph C. Morreale
 
Economics and Critical Reading 18
 
Hansen's Proficiencies and Critical Reading 20
 
Reading as an Economist 21
 
Concluding Thoughts 38
 
References 39
 
3 Searching for Story: Reading in Science 41
Andrea McKenzie and Eric Brenner
 
Building Reading Skills in High School 43
 
Reading in the First Year of College and Beyond 45
 
Reading an Experimental Report 45
 
From Reading to Writing 55
 
Notes 56
 
References 56
 
4 How to Read a Photograph, a Passport, a Product Sample, and a Patent: Teaching with STEM Archives 58
Lindsay Anderberg
 
How to Read a Photograph 60
 
Classroom Implementation and Activities 62
 
Question Set 1 63
 
Question Set 2 64
 
How to Read a Passport 66
 
How to Read a Product Sample 70
 
How to Read a Patent 73
 
Activity Modifications and Student Reactions 76
 
Question Set 1 for EWP Courses 77
 
Conclusion 80
 
References 80
 
5 Critical Reading in Political Science 81
Michael Busch and Garri Rivkin
 
What is Critical Reading in Political Science? 82
 
Teaching Critical Reading in Theory 85
 
Teaching Critical Reading in Practice 90
 
6 Minor Data: Reading the "Smart" City Through Engaged Pedagogy 100
Gregory T. Donovan
 
Reading What is Legible and Illegible in the Smart City 102
 
Engaging Difference Through Critical Service-Learning 105
 
Learning and Design Practices 106
 
Minor Data in Practice: Reading Race in Lincoln Center 111
 
Conclusion 113
 
Acknowledgements 114
 
Notes 114
 
References 115
 
7 Critical Reading in Sociology: Developing Confidence to Know the World 117
Jesse Goldstein
 
Assignment 1: In-Depth Interviews as a Model for Critical Dialogue 118
 
Assignment 2: Artifact Analysis 121
 
Assignment 3: Literature Analysis 124
 
Assignment 4: Reverse Outline 129
 
Conclusion: Always More Work to Be Done, Never Enough Time to Do It 130
 
8 Critical Reading in Business Education 132
Robert Lyon
 
Strategic Critical Reading 133
 
Strategic Critical Reading in the Social Sciences 136
 
Conclusion 150
 
References 151
 
9 How to Read a Scientific Article: The QDAFI Method of Structured Relevant Gist 152
Pascal Wallisch
 
Expert and Non-Expert Readers 152
 
The QDAFI Method: An Overview 154
 
Benefits of the QDAFI Method 160
 
A Demonstration 161
 
Conclusion 163
 
Acknowledgments 163
 
References 164
 
10 A Political Science Pedagogy of Critical Cosmopolitanism 165
Michael S. Rodriguez
 
Introduction 165
 
Exercise 1: The Method of Substantiation 166
 
Exercise 1 Continued: Intellectual Empathy and Tacit Intellectual Wisdom 168
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Product details

• Authors: a Borst, Anton Borst, Anton Diyanni Borst, Robert DiYanni, Robert J. DiYanni, Robert J. Borst Diyanni
• Assisted by: Anto Borst (Editor), Anton Borst (Editor), Borst Anton (Editor), DiYanni (Editor), DiYanni (Editor), Robert DiYanni (Editor), Robert J. DiYanni (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781119155263
• ISBN: 978-1-119-15526-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Psychologie, Hochschule, Education, Bildungswesen, Psychology, Lese- u. Schreibfähigkeit, Literacy & Reading, Kognitive Neuropsychologie u. Neurowissenschaft, Cognitive Neuropsychology & Cognitive Neuroscience, Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen, Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)