Thinking Skills in Education:

Design Method & Scientific Method,

Problem Solving in a Goal-Directed Curriculum

( a sitemap for education pages by Craig Rusbult, Ph.D. )

 Introduction to Design Method 
 Overview of Design Method 
 Details of Design Method 

 Design  &  Science 
 
A Methods Sampler 

 Introduction to Scientific Method 
 Overview of Scientific Method 
 Details of Scientific Method 

 

 Motivations (and methods) for Learning 
 
Why should we teach Design before Science? 
 
Curriculum Design for Thinking Skills Education 
 Four Frameworks for Thinking Skills Education 

 Aesop's Activities for Goal-Directed Education 
 Creative-and-Critical Thinking Skills & Methods 
 
Is there a method for design or science? 
 Coping with Complexity in Method-Models  

 

Many ideas in the pages above are an extension of my PhD dissertation which was
a unifying synthesis of ideas (mainly from scientists and philosophers, but also from
sociologists, psychologists, historians, and myself) into a model of scientific method, and
an application of this model for the integrative analysis of a creative science classroom.

Ideas from many authors, about thinking, learning, and teaching:
 CREATIVE THINKING 
 CRITICAL THINKING 
 PROBLEM SOLVING 
 TEACHING STRATEGIES 
 LEARNING SKILLS 
 TEACHING ACTIVITIES 
 


 
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Should scientific method be eks-rated?
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Education: Learning-Thinking-Teaching
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