In a 1976 essay — “Interpreting the Variorum,” published in Critical Inquiry — I coined the term “interpretive community.” An interpretive community is not made up of persons who, because they share ...

“For-profit online program management companies provide positive value for institutions and students.” Please debate. No, really. We want to have these arguments. Argument is essential for the ...

As you may have figured out from the focus of my ongoing blog, my book and my previous research, critical thinking (CT) is my specialty area of research. However, perhaps something that I don’t ...

While just about everyone agrees that critical thinking should be learned in school, the actual teaching of better reasoning is not easy. But there’s growing evidence that concept mapping can help ...