Developing Min& is not a recipe book, nor does it
provide easy answers. A curriculum for thinking, and therefore
this revised edition, is intentionally unfinished. Its design
is symbolic of the field of educational inquiry todaycontroversial,
tentative, incomplete, and fascinating. Several
chapters prescnt alternative approaches, multiple definitions,
and differing points of view. This is purposeful. Instructional
leaders, working with other educators and interested
community members, will strive for improvement by continuing
to stimulate dialogue, gathering additional resources
and data, clar4ing meaning, synthesizing definitions, and
searching for better ways of learning to think through education.
Out of this confusion comes enlightenment. Thus the
process of developing curriculum, improving instructional
strategies, and assessing students' growth in thinking abilities
is in itself a form of inquiry and should be an intellectually
stimulating experience.