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    Let's Think About Nature!
    Let's Think About Nature!
    Let's Think About Nature!
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    Let's Think About Nature!

    By Karolyn Francoise Verville

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    This program is designed to complement the natural sciences. Scientific concepts, while usually can be defined by specific criteria and procedures for classification, tend to look for inert information instead of dynamic information.

    This dynamism is what we promote here. That blood is red or that water is colorless are given knowledge that hardly encourages questioning or reflection. But lets suppose that it provides more information about the actual conditions of observation: it is said that the blood is red under the naked eye or that water is colorless in small quantity. Suppose also that in this case students are aware that what is true in parts need not be true for the whole, and vice versa.

    These students can be motivated to reflect and ask if blood continues to be red under a microscope or if water is without color in large quantities.

    In other words, to lead reflection with practice is what enhances the thinking abilities that should be inculcated in Lets Think about nature and these thinking skills cannot be achieved without a certain philosophical curiosity.

    There are several thinking abilities generated by philosophical questioning and transmitted to other disciplines through reading, writing, oral expression and the ability to pay attention.

    Heres some of them: providing reasons; asking questions; reasoning with matrices; inductive and deductive reasoning; causal thinking; standardization; immediate inferences; hypothetical reasoning; making inference; formation of concepts; discovery of assumptions; classification; description; realization of distinctions. instantiation; finding similarities; recognizing the relationship between part and whole and mean-end; argumentation; discriminative meanings; making comparisons; acknowledging ambiguities; defining; telling stories, etc.

    It would be quite exhausting to enumerate all the thinking skills and mental abilities promoted by philosophical questioning in the natural sciences, but these few are sufficient to give a general idea of how Lets Think About Nature can promote the development of children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 22, 2012
    ISBN9781469165462
    Let's Think About Nature!
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    Karolyn Francoise Verville

    EL autor: Karolyn Verville nació en el 1971, en la Ciudad de Quebec (Canadá). Se graduó de la licenciatura de Filosofía de la Universidad Laval en el 1994; de la Maestría en Educación en el Montclair State University, en Nueva-Jersey (EE.UU) en el 1995; del doctorado de Filosofía de la Educación en la universidad Iberoamericana de México D.F. en el 1998; de un post-doctorado en Bioética Ambiental y Ingeniería Genética en la Universidad Laval de Canadá en el 2002; y de otro post-doctorado de la misma universidad en Filosofía de Asuntos Exteriores en el 2003. Siempre se ha dedicado a los oprimidos, que sean animales o humanos. Ahora vive con su marido e hijo en California y esta a carga de un rescate para animales que se llama SunshineHaven.org

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      Let's Think About Nature! - Karolyn Francoise Verville

      LET’S THINK

      ABOUT NATURE!

      KAROLYN FRANCOISE VERVILLE, PH.D

      Copyright © 2012 by Karolyn Francoise Verville, Ph.D.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2012902508

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-6545-5

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4691-6544-8

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4691-6546-2

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      110876

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      The Elements

      Water

      Air

      The Fire

      The Earth

      The Process Of Life

      About Animals

      PREFACE

      This program is designed to complement the natural sciences. Scientific concepts, while usually can be defined by specific criteria and procedures for classification, tend to look for inert information instead of dynamic information.

      This dynamism is what we promote here. That blood is red or that water is colorless are given knowledge that hardly encourages questioning or reflection. But let’s suppose that it provides more information about the actual conditions of observation: it is said that the blood is red under the naked eye or that water is colorless in small quantity. Suppose also that in this case students are aware that what is true in parts need not be true for the whole, and vice versa.

      These students can be motivated to reflect and ask if blood continues to be red under a microscope or if water is without color in large quantities.

      In other words, to lead reflection with practice is what enhances the thinking abilities that should be inculcated in Let’s Think about nature and these thinking skills cannot be achieved without a certain philosophical curiosity.

      There are several thinking abilities generated by philosophical questioning and transmitted to other disciplines through reading, writing, oral expression and the ability to pay attention.

      Here’s some of them: providing reasons; asking

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