本系列教材在重視英語語言基本技能綜合訓練的同時,尤其重視高級認知能力培養(yǎng),特別是批判性思維訓練。此訓練主要通過對解釋、分析、評估、推論、說明和自我校準等核心技能的培養(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用,增強在不同學科學習和日常生活中運用這些工具的自信心、自覺性和具備良好判斷的學習者。本教材供非英語專業(yè)博士研究生和較高水平的碩士研究生教學使用。
19861990 河南師范大學學習;
19972000 上海外國語大學學習;
20002004 同濟大學外國語學院工作;
20042005 教育部人事司借調(diào);
20052010 中國駐悉尼總領(lǐng)館教育組領(lǐng)事;
2010 同濟大學外國語學院工作。
Unit One The Idea of a University
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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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Unit Four On Self-Respect
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Unit Five The Price of Genius
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Unit Six Once More to the Lake
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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)