Critical Thinking for a Better Civic Life

Critical Thinking for a Better Civic Life investigates the substandard conditions in U.S. countrywide teaching of civic education and critical thinking. This situation has helped degrade U.S. democracy and civic life. The book explains how democracies in both the U.S. and worldwide have risen over time and why many are now in decline. The book presents a comprehensive critical-thinking framework applicable to elementary, secondary, and post-secondary curricula. It includes material for assessing truthful information, misinformation, biases and logic fallacies, political cultures, assumptions, and beliefs. This framework is an expansion of the scientific method and can be used in all inductive and deductive research and analysis. The critical-thinking framework has the added benefit of being used in decision-making in a person’s civic, personal, and professional lives.