Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2 : Social and Natural Sciences (Hardcover)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 Reading Like an Anthropologist

 Noelle Molé Liston

Anthropology as Over-the-Shoulder Reading

Empathetic Reading

Reading for Argument

Towards Non-Linear Reading and Representations of Texts

Reading for Content-Based Argument versus Conceptual Argument

Reading Context as Argument

Establishing Context: An Example

Reading Media Sources Like an Anthropologist

Classroom Activity: Competing Contextual Arguments

References

2 Developing Proficiency in Economics Through Critical Reading  

Anna Shostya and Joseph C. Morreale

Economics and Critical Reading

Hansen’s Proficiencies and Critical Reading

Reading as an Economist

Concluding Thoughts

References

3 Searching for Story: Reading in Science  

Andrea McKenzie and Eric Brenner

Building Reading Skills in High School

Reading in the First Year of College and Beyond

Reading an Experimental Report

From Reading to Writing

References

4 How to Read a Photograph, a Passport, a Product Sample, and a Patent: Teaching with STEM Archives 

Lindsay Anderberg

How to Read a Photograph

Classroom Implementation and Activities

How to Read a Passport

How to Read a Product Sample

How to Read a Patent

Activity Modifications and Student Reactions

Conclusion

References

5 Critical Reading in Political Science  

Michael Busch and Garri Rivkin

What Is Critical Reading in Political Science?

Teaching Critical Reading in Theory

Teaching Critical Reading in Practice

6 Minor Data: Reading the “Smart” City Through Engaged Pedagogy  

Gregory T. Donovan

Reading What is Legible and Illegible in the Smart City

Engaging Difference Through Critical Service-Learning

Learning and Design Practices

Minor Data in Practice: Reading Race in Lincoln Center

Conclusion

References

7 Critical Reading in Sociology: Developing Confidence to Know the World  

Jesse Goldstein

Assignment 1: In-Depth Interviews as a Model for Critical Dialogue

Assignment 2: Artifact Analysis

Assignment 3: Literature Analysis

Assignment 4: Reverse Outline

Conclusion: Always More Work to Be Done, Never Enough Time to Do  It

8 Critical Reading in Business Education  

Robert Lyon

Strategic Critical Reading

Strategic Critical Reading in the Social Sciences

Conclusion

References

9 How to Read a Scientific Article: The QDAFI Method of Structured Relevant Gist

Pascal Wallisch

Expert and Non-Expert Readers

The QDAFI Method: An Overview

Benefits of the QDAFI Method

A Demonstration 

Conclusion

References

10 A Political Science Pedagogy of Critical Cosmopolitanism

Michael S. Rodriguez

Introduction

Exercise 1: The Method of Substantiation

Exercise 1 Continued: Intellectual Empathy and Tacit Intellectual Wisdom

Exercise 2: Global Awareness as Pedagogy

Exercise 3: Combining Approaches

Theoretical Background

The Pedagogy of Cosmopolitanism

Conclusion

References

11 Text(ured) Considerations: Critical Reading in its Digital and Social Contexts

Kiersten Greene

Introduction

Thinking Aloud

Digital Annotation

Reading the Room for Equity

Final Thoughts

References

12 Transparency, Encouragement, and Autonomy: Teaching Critically Engaged Reading in Sociology  

Deborah Gambs

Levelling the Playing Field Through Transparency

Encouraging Deep Reading

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut

Conclusion

References

13 Critical Reading with STS: Interdisciplinary Inspiration for the Science Classroom

Christopher Leslie

Introduction

Power and the Social Construction of Science and Technology

Darwin and Melville: A Pedagogical Case Study

Conclusion

References

Index