Buku ini hibah dari The Asia Foundation melaluin FPTTI DIY. There is a great need for critical thingking in schools, and by teachers. Current educational reform efforts emphasize student testing on basic information and rote memorization. What is lost is education that involves critical thingking, creativity, and consideration of alternatives. The essential framework for this book is the stimulation of crtical thingking - to include dialogue and dialetic approaches. Crtitical issues in education opposing sides of the issues presented and illustrates, through competing essays on each topic, how critical thingking, dialoque, and dialetic approaches improve understanding and the evaluation of available and reasoning