Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Death and Dying - Softcover

Buckley, William J.; Feldt, Karen S.

9780078050398: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Death and Dying

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078050391 ISBN 13: 9780078050398

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources. Taking Sides readers also offer a Topic Guide and an annotated listing of Internet References for further consideration of the issues. An online Instructor’s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each volume. Visit www.mhhe.com/takingsides for more details.

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From the Back Cover:

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Death and Dying is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in death and dying. The readings, which represent the arguments of thanatologists, researchers, educators and writers, have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate format.

Taking Sides: Enhanced Pedagogy!For each issue, the editor provides a concise introduction and LearningOutcomes that set the stage for the debate. A new section, Exploring the Issue,presents Critical Thinking and Reflection questions to provoke further examination of the issue. This section also features Is There Common Ground?--designed to explore the different perspectives of the issue--plus Additional Resources--for Readings or World Wide Web sites that further the debate.

By requiring students to analyze contradictory positions and reach considered judgments, Taking Sides actively develops students' critical thinking skills.It is this development of critical thinking skills that is the ultimate purpose of each of the volumes in the widely acclaimed Taking Sides Program.

About the Author:

Co-editor William Joseph Buckley (PhD, MA, University of Chicago) teaches ethics at Georgetown University.

Co-editor Karen S. Feldt (Ph.D, RN) is a Clinical Educator and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner who has taught as Associate Professor at Seattle University and the University of Minnesota.

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