Critical Thinking and Learning

Mark Mason is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, where he is also Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). He is the co-author of a variety of articles and books in the field, most recently Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation and Development in a Globalizing Asia Pacific.

• Notes on Contributors vPreface and acknowledgementsMichael A. Peters ix1 Critical Thinking and LearningMark Mason 12 Kinds of Thinking, Styles of ReasoningMichael A. Peters 123 Culture, Cognitive Pluralism and RationalityColin W. Evers 254 Is There a Geography of Thought for East-West Differences? Why or Why Not?Ho Mun Chan & Hektor K. T. Yan 445 False Dichotomy? ‘Western’ and ‘Confucian’ concepts of scholarship and learningJanette Ryan & Kam Louie 656 Learning, Empowerment and JudgementMichael  Luntley 797 Is Popper’s Falsificationist Heuristic a Helpful Resource for Developing Critical Thinking?Chi-Ming Lam 938 Critical Thinking as a Source of Respect for Persons: A critique Christine Doddington 1099 Re-conceptualizing Critical Thinking for Moral Education in Culturally Plural SocietiesDuck-Joo Kwak 120Index 131