Critical Reading Across the Curriculum (Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences) by Anton Borst; Robert DiYanni ISBN 9781119155263, 9781119155256, 1119155266, 1119155258 instant download
What is critical reading, and how do you teach it in the college classroom? Exploring answers to these questions, as they vary across discipline and
individual practice, is the purpose of Critical Reading Across the Curriculum,
Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences, as it was for its predecessor, Critical
Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 1: Humanities. For both volumes,
we asked our contributors – accomplished professors who recognize teach-
ing as an essential part of their role as scholars – to discuss critical reading
and what it looks like in their discipline. We asked them to describe the
goals of critical reading in their field, the questions it typically pursues, and
the skills it requires. We asked them to demonstrate how it’s done. More
important, given our primary pedagogical aim, we asked these experienced
educators to share with our readers the methods and materials they use to
cultivate their students’ critical reading skills. The following chapters thus
present an array of classroom practices that our sixteen contributors use to
critically engage students with a variety of texts, both written and visual,
scholarly and popular, in the social and natural sciences.
We are grateful that they were up to this double challenge of not only
defining and demonstrating critical reading in their disciplines, but also
explaining how they teach it to their students. Teaching critical reading in
higher education often involves confronting a pedagogical paradox: that
being an expert on a topic can make teaching that topic more, rather than
less, difficult. When we learn things well, when we master them, we inter-
nalize that knowledge, beginning with the fundamentals. This knowledge
becomes ingrained and habitual, even unconscious. When speaking with
other professionals in our field, we likely employ a conceptual shor…
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