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Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2
Social and Natural Sciences
Anton Borst (Edited by), A Borst (Author), Robert DiYanni (Edited by)
9781119155263, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2020
259 pages
22.4 x 14.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.386 kg
Provides educators with practical strategies, tools, and techniques for teaching critical reading skills to students in the social and natural sciences. Strong critical reading skills are an essential part of any student’s academic success. Teaching these vital skills requires educators to develop and implement effective teaching strategies, often based on their own critical reading practices. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences provides educators with expert insights, real-world methods, and proven strategies to build critical reading skills in students across disciplines. Drawing from the experience of seasoned classroom practitioners, this book presents a dozen essays that offer various applications of critical reading best practices in fields such as anthropology, biology, economics, engineering, political science, and sociology. Clear, jargon-free chapters identify, explain, and illustrate best teaching practices for critical reading. Containing numerous practical examples and demonstrations, essays written by experts in their respective fields explain what critical reading requires for their discipline, as well as how to teach those skills in the classroom. Every essay includes a host of pedagogical activities, assignments, and projects that can be used directly or adapted for diverse teaching applications. This valuable book helps educators: Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences is an ideal resource for educators in a wide range of areas, such as college and high school instructors in science and social science disciplines and instructors of graduate education courses.
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xviii 1 Reading Like an Anthropologist 1 Anthropology as Over‐the‐Shoulder Reading 1 Empathetic Reading 4 Reading for Argument 7 Towards Non‐Linear Reading and Representations of Texts 7 Reading for Content‐Based Argument versus Conceptual Argument 9 Reading Context as Argument 11 Establishing Context: An Example 12 Reading Media Sources Like an Anthropologist 13 Classroom Activity: Competing Contextual Arguments 16 References 17 2 Developing Proficiency in Economics Through Critical Reading 18 Economics and Critical Reading 18 Hansen’s Proficiencies and Critical Reading 20 Reading as an Economist 21 Concluding Thoughts 38 References 39 3 Searching for Story: Reading in Science 41 Building Reading Skills in High School 43 Reading in the First Year of College and Beyond 45 Reading an Experimental Report 45 From Reading to Writing 55 Notes 56 References 56 4 How to Read a Photograph, a Passport, a Product Sample, and a Patent: Teaching with STEM Archives 58 How to Read a Photograph 60 Classroom Implementation and Activities 62 Question Set 1 63 Question Set 2 64 How to Read a Passport 66 How to Read a Product Sample 70 How to Read a Patent 73 Activity Modifications and Student Reactions 76 Question Set 1 for EWP Courses 77 Conclusion 80 References 80 5 Critical Reading in Political Science 81 What is Critical Reading in Political Science? 82 Teaching Critical Reading in Theory 85 Teaching Critical Reading in Practice 90 6 Minor Data: Reading the “Smart” City Through Engaged Pedagogy 100 Reading What is Legible and Illegible in the Smart City 102 Engaging Difference Through Critical Service‐Learning 105 Learning and Design Practices 106 Minor Data in Practice: Reading Race in Lincoln Center 111 Conclusion 113 Acknowledgements 114 Notes 114 References 115 7 Critical Reading in Sociology: Developing Confidence to Know the World 117 Assignment 1: In‐Depth Interviews as a Model for Critical Dialogue 118 Assignment 2: Artifact Analysis 121 Assignment 3: Literature Analysis 124 Assignment 4: Reverse Outline 129 Conclusion: Always More Work to Be Done, Never Enough Time to Do It 130 8 Critical Reading in Business Education 132 Strategic Critical Reading 133 Strategic Critical Reading in the Social Sciences 136 Conclusion 150 References 151 9 How to Read a Scientific Article: The QDAFI Method of Structured Relevant Gist 152 Expert and Non‐Expert Readers 152 The QDAFI Method: An Overview 154 Benefits of the QDAFI Method 160 A Demonstration 161 Conclusion 163 Acknowledgments 163 References 164 10 A Political Science Pedagogy of Critical Cosmopolitanism 165 Introduction 165 Exercise 1: The Method of Substantiation 166 Exercise 1 Continued: Intellectual Empathy and Tacit Intellectual Wisdom 168 Exercise 2: Global Awareness as Pedagogy 170 Exercise 3: Combining Approaches 172 Theoretical Background 172 The Pedagogy of Cosmopolitanism 174 Conclusion 177 References 177 11 Text(ured) Considerations: Critical Reading in its Digital and Social Contexts 179 Introduction 179 Thinking Aloud 181 Digital Annotation 186 Reading the Room for Equity 190 Final Thoughts 195 References 195 12 Transparency, Encouragement, and Autonomy: Teaching Critically Engaged Reading in Sociology 197 Leveling the Playing Field Through Transparency 199 Encouraging Deep Reading 205 Teaching with Your Mouth Shut 210 Conclusion 212 References 212 13 Critical Reading with STS: Interdisciplinary Inspiration for the Science Classroom 214 Introduction 214 Power and the Social Construction of Science and Technology 218 Darwin and Melville: A Pedagogical Case Study 222 Conclusion 230 References 231 Index 233
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Anna Shostya and Joseph C. Morreale
Andrea McKenzie and Eric Brenner
Lindsay Anderberg
Michael Busch and Garri Rivkin
Gregory T. Donovan
Jesse Goldstein
Robert Lyon
Pascal Wallisch
Michael S. Rodriguez
Kiersten Greene
Deborah Gambs
Christopher Leslie
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
