Contents -- Series Editor's Preface - Key Debates in Educational Policy -- Foreword -- The policy background in the United Kingdom -- 1 Teaching Thinking Skills -- 1. The argument -- 2. Present interest in thinking skills -- 3. Thinking as a skill -- 4. General transferability -- 5. Conceptual errors -- 6. The direct teaching of thinking and the importance of content -- 7. Thinking as mental processes -- 8. Examples of general thinking skills -- 9. The dangers -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- 2 On Thinking Skills -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problems with thinking of thinking as a skill -- 3. 'The myth of general transferability' -- 4. The 'direct' teaching of thinking and content/subject matter knowledge -- 5. Mental processes and general thinking skills -- 6. The educational dangers of thinking of thinking in terms of skills -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- Afterword -- 1. Skills -- 2. Skills and transferability -- 3. The question of efficacy -- 4. What is thinking? -- 5. Mental processes -- 6. A summary of Johnson's claims -- 7. Reasoning -- 8. The role of philosophy -- 9. Reason and argument -- 10. Inductive arguments -- 11. Concluding remarks -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.