AS Critical Thinking for AQA

Oliver McAdoo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-14339-5 (ISBN)

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AS Critical Thinking for AQA is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabus. Structured very closely around the AQA specification, it covers the two units of the AS level in an exceptionally clear and student-friendly style.

The chapters are helpfully subdivided into short digestible passages, and include:

intended learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
student exercises at the end of each section with a ‘stretching activity’ for more advanced learners
exam orientated questions
key point summaries at the end of each section
cross references.

In line with the AQA specification, there is a heavy emphasis on more imaginative forms of source material, for example, music, film, artwork, historical documents, adverts, moral dilemmas and scientific debates, as a means of illustrating key points. A great deal of emphasis is also placed on ‘live’ or ‘real’ arguments, taking topical examples from the world of science, politics, entertainment and sport.

The book is accompanied by a companion website with extensive resources for both instructors and students.

Oliver McAdoo is Head of Critical Thinking at Godalming College. He is part of the team that helped develop the new philosophy specification for the exam board beginning in 2009. He has also created specimen assessment material for this new specification. He is senior examiner and scrutineer in philosophy and co-author of the official exam board textbook.

Introduction; 1: Foundation Unit; 1: Reasoned argument; 2: Areas of discourse; 3: Claims; 4: Analysing and interpreting arguments; 5: Assumptions; 6: Evaluating arguments; 7: Considering consequences; 8: Additional evidence, counter-examples and analogies; 9: Ambiguity, vagueness and clarifying terms; 10: The use of persuasive language; 11: Flaws; 12: Drawing comparisons and contrasts; 13: Presenting your own arguments; 14: Unit 1 exam guide; 2: Information, Inference and Explanation; 15: Presenting information/evidence; 16: Numerical and statistical reasoning; 17: Patterns and correlations; 18: Plausible explanations; 19: Drawing safe inferences; 20: Unit 2 exam guide

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-138-14339-1 / 1138143391
ISBN-13	978-1-138-14339-5 / 9781138143395
Zustand	Neuware