Alternative teaching strategies: The case for critical thinking

Teaching Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-194

  Weast, Don ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at Waukesha   (United States)

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EID: 0030560065     PISSN: 0092055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1318809     Document Type: Article

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