本系列教材在重視英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言基本技能綜合訓(xùn)練的同時(shí),尤其重視高級(jí)認(rèn)知能力培養(yǎng),特別是批判性思維訓(xùn)練。此訓(xùn)練主要通過(guò)對(duì)解釋、分析、評(píng)估、推論、說(shuō)明和自我校準(zhǔn)等核心技能的培養(yǎng),旨在培育能夠整合批判性思維的各種技能并加以有效運(yùn)用,增強(qiáng)在不同學(xué)科學(xué)習(xí)和日常生活中運(yùn)用這些工具的自信心、自覺(jué)性和具備良好判斷的學(xué)習(xí)者。本教材供非英語(yǔ)專業(yè)博士研究生和較高水平的碩士研究生教學(xué)使用。
19861990 河南師范大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí);
19972000 上海外國(guó)語(yǔ)大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí);
20002004 同濟(jì)大學(xué)外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院工作;
20042005 教育部人事司借調(diào);
20052010 中國(guó)駐悉尼總領(lǐng)館教育組領(lǐng)事;
2010 同濟(jì)大學(xué)外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院工作。
Unit One The Idea of a University
Starting out
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Critical thinking (I)
Unit Two The Power of Words. Winston Churchill's Wartime Speeches
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Critical thinking (II)
Unit Three The Two Cultures
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Critical thinking (III)
Unit Four On Self-Respect
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Critical thinking (IV)
Unit Five The Price of Genius
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Critical thinking (V)
Unit Six Once More to the Lake
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Critical thinking (VI)
Unit Seven Early American Modernism and the Educational Environment
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Critical thinking (VII)
Unit Eight Empire without End?
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Critical thinking (VIII)