Linda Elder

DR. LINDA ELDER is an educational psychologist and internationally-recognized authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for 30 years. She has a special interest in the relationship between thought and emotion, as well as the twin barriers to critical thinking of egocentric and sociocentric thinking. Elder has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development, is author of Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies, and is co-author with Richard Paul of four books on critical thinking and twenty-three titles in the Thinker’s Guide Library. Designed to advance fairminded critical societies on a broad scale, The Paul-Elder Framework for Critical Thinking (TM) is widely esteemed as the most robust and accessible theory of critical thinking extant. 

Upcoming events for Dr. Linda Elder:

• The 45th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking

Books written by Dr. Linda Elder:

• Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization - version with four-color interior

• Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization - version with black & white interior

• Think About Fran and Sam: Which is better at their thinking? 

• The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children

Website: http://criticalthinking.org 

Email: elder@criticalthinking.org

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