Montclair State University Montclair State University Digital Commons Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects 5-2017 Everyday Criticality : Questioning, Expertise, and the Embodiment of Critical Judgment Daniel Fisherman Montclair State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Fisherman, Daniel, "Everyday Criticality : Questioning, Expertise, and the Embodiment of Critical Judgment" (2017). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 39. https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/39 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Montclair State University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects by an authorized administrator of Montclair State University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. EVERYDAY CRITICALITY: QUESTIONING, EXPERTISE, AND THE EMBODIMENT OF CRITICAL JUDGMENT A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of Montclair State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education by DANIEL FISHERMAN Montclair State University Upper Montclair, NJ 2017 Dissertation Chair: Mark Weinstein Copyright © 2017 by Daniel Fisherman. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT EVERYDAY CRITICALITY: QUESTIONING, EXPERTISE, AND THE EMBODIMENT OF CRITICAL JUDGMENT by Daniel Fisherman The development of critical disposition, and particularly the disposition to question assertions, has long been viewed as an essential goal of education. Its importance is expressed not only in numerous normative educational visions, but by contemporary policy documents, studies of teacher attitudes, and even popular educational literature. Indeed, the movement to educate for higher-order, critical thinking that has developed over the past four decades views questioning as perhaps the central activity of skilled cognition.