{"product_id":"9781475809114","title":"Adventures in Reasoning: Communal Inquiry through Fantasy Role-Play","description":"Helping students think more critically, communicate ideas more effectively, and work more cooperatively with others are goals widely recognized as indispensable to a proper education. Adventures in Reasoning: Communal Inquiry Through Fantasy Role-Play provides middle school, high school, and even post-secondary teachers with a method to cultivate these crucial skill sets in a way that is engaging, academically rigorous, and also fun. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe role-playing approach draws upon the pioneering notion of the community of inquiry as a vehicle for enhancing student learning and development through discussing philosophical concepts and issues. Students create characters that they then use to explore a rich fantasy world filled with practical and conceptual challenges specifically designed to enhance a wide range of cognitive and communication abilities. Drawing together the appeal of fantasy narratives with the rigor of communal inquiry, Adventures in Reasoning provides educators with a rich array of tools through which to engage students’ interests, capture their curiosity, and cultivate crucial cognitive and social skills. Some additional key features of this book include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003estep-by-step instructions on how to implement fantasy-gaming in the classroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etips on how to assess students’ critical and creative reasoning skills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eeasy to understand rules for fantasy role-playing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edetailed adventure quests provided that target a wide array of skill sets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eoverview of the pedagogical benefits of introducing philosophy and communal inquiry to middle and high school students\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elots of advice and suggestions on how to facilitate an effective community of inquiry and how to accommodate different class sizes and student abilities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erecommendations on how to use fantasy role-playing as a type of service learning in college classrooms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135771164912,"sku":"9781475809114","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475809114_p0.jpg?v=1769893473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475809114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}