Why We Need a Construction Approach to Logic Education

Why We Need a Construction Approach to Logic Education

Wai Ling Lai, Kazuhisa Todayama
ISBN13: 9781799818113|ISBN10: 179981811X|EISBN13: 9781799818137
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1811-3.ch011
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Lai, Wai Ling, and Kazuhisa Todayama. "Why We Need a Construction Approach to Logic Education." Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society, edited by Hiroshi Yama and Veronique Salvano-Pardieu, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 245-265. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1811-3.ch011

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Lai, W. L. & Todayama, K. (2020). Why We Need a Construction Approach to Logic Education. In H. Yama & V. Salvano-Pardieu (Eds.), Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society (pp. 245-265). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1811-3.ch011

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Lai, Wai Ling, and Kazuhisa Todayama. "Why We Need a Construction Approach to Logic Education." In Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society, edited by Hiroshi Yama and Veronique Salvano-Pardieu, 245-265. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1811-3.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter introduces a construction approach to logic education by explaining why such an approach is needed and how it should be implemented. The chapter is divided into two parts. The first part argues that conventional logic education cannot teach people how to make a practical use of logic because what people commonly learn from conventional textbooks of logic can hardly correspond to the ordinary way of reasoning. The second part highlights how the construction approach can be integrated into people's ordinary way of reasoning by being practical and constructive in helping people use logic in what they do, such as writing an academic paper. It presents a general framework about how a logical relation can be constructed from scratch, and the three major steps of the construction.

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