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Making Thinking Real Enough to Make It Better: Using Posters to Develop Skills for Constructing Disciplinary Arguments
Author(s) -
O’Connell Killen Patricia
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00141
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , discipline , frame (networking) , meaning (existential) , space (punctuation) , expression (computer science) , critical thinking , quality (philosophy) , mathematics education , epistemology , visual thinking , computer science , psychology , sociology , social science , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , programming language , operating system , telecommunications
How does one teach critical thinking, the procedures of an academic discipline, and the composition of plausible interpretations and arguments to students who are more facile with visual than with written modes of expression? How does one make real to students the construction of meaning in that unfamiliar epistemological space between brute fact and mere opinion? The “argument poster,” a pedagogical strategy that helps students translate their skills for critical thinking from a visual frame to a written frame, results in better quality historical essays and research papers.