Hi, Jamie --
It sounds as if you're thinking about PBL or inquiry learning, where the
emphasis is on the process of thinking as much as on the written product.
-- McMaster specializes in inquiry learning from the first year on: see the
website at http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/inquiry/whats.unique.about.inquiry.htm.
-- There's also an STLHE booklet by Mac profs Bob Hudspeth and Herb Jenkins
called Teaching the Art of Enquiry (2001), which focusses on the design of
assignments and on coaching students through their wish to start with the answer
and then formulate a problem that fits it.
-- Donald Woods from Chem Engineering at Mac has also written books on PBL,
e.g., Problem-Based Learning (self-published, I think, around 1994).
-- San Diego also has a website defining PBL for medicine and management
studies: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/clrit/learningtree/PBL/WhatisPBL.html
-- The best book linking writing and analytic/critical/inquiry learning is by
John Bean: Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing,
Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 2001). I
highly recommend it as a source for teaching strategies in university courses,
and will be interested to see if you think it fits your clients.
Margaret
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Jamie MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for recent articles / essays / books about research on, or
> strategies for, or how-to advice on:
> - analytic thinking (wherein problem **posing** is emphasized as much
> as problem solving)
> - contextual awareness / contextual thinking ("seeing the forest, not
> just the trees" . . . the organizational context, the temporal context,
> the legislative context, etc.)
> . . . both related to what I'd call "analytic writing," i.e., the posing
> and solving of real problems by making (in writing) a reasoned,
> persuasive case for change (usually involves assessing the costs and
> benefits of the status quo and of a few alternatives), and suggesting
> how the change would best be carried out (i.e., the "implementation
> plan")
>
> By recent, I guess I mean in the last 3 or 4 years. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jamie MacKinnon
>
> Bank of Canada / Banque du Canada
> 613 - 782 - 7124
>
>
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