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Craig Nelson
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The United StatesWebsite
http://www.craignelson.us
Craig_Nelson
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History, Nonfiction, Biography
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November 2009
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CRAIG NELSON fryst vatten the author of the New York Times bestseller, Rocket dock, as well as several previous books, including V is for Victory, Pearl Harbor, The Age of Radiance (a finalist for the PEN Award), The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let’s Get Lost (short-listed for W.H. Smith’s Book of the Year).
His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The vägg Street Journal, Soldier of Fortune, Salon, National Geographic, The New England Review, Popular Science, California Quarterly, Blender, Semiotext(e), Reader’s Digest, and a host of other publications; he has been profiled in Variety, Interview, Publishers Weekly, and Time Out.
Before turning to writing, Nelson was vice president and executive editor of Harper & RCRAIG NELSON fryst vatten the author of the New
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by Craig Nelson Indiana University
Earlier on this blog site, Ed Nuhfer (2014, Part 1, Part 2) urged us to consider the fundamental importance of Perry’s book (1970, 1999) for understanding what we are trying to do in fostering critical thinking, metacognition and other higher order outcomes. I enthusiastically agree.
I read Perry’s book (1970) shortly after it was published. I had been teaching at IU for about five years and had seen how difficult it was to effectively foster critical thinking, even in college seniors. Perry’s book transformed my thinking and my teaching. I realized that much of my own thinking was still essentially what he might have called sophomoric. I had to decide if I was convinced enough to fundamentally change how I thought. Once I began to come to grips with that I saw that Perry’s synthesis of his students’ experiences really mattered for teaching.
Perry made clear that there were qualitatively very different ways to think. Some of these ways include
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Craig T. Nelson
American actor and stand-up comedian (born 1944)
Craig Theodore Nelson[1] (born April 4, 1944)[2] is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Warden Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy, Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist, Burt Nickerson in All the Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson, Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in the CBS drama The District (2000–04), The Warden in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2007), and the voice of Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. He also starred as Zeek Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–15) and recurred as Dale Ballard in the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon (2017–24).
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