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  1. Critical Thinking

    Critical Thinking. Critical thinking is a widely accepted educational goal. Its definition is contested, but the competing definitions can be understood as differing conceptions of the same basic concept: careful thinking directed to a goal. Conceptions differ with respect to the scope of such thinking, the type of goal, the criteria and norms ...

  2. Critical Theories of Education: An Introduction

    This chapter gives an overall introduction to critical theories essential to education, as we lay out the histories, reasoning, needs, and overall structure of the Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories of Education.We discuss the five groundings that are the conceptual and theoretical thematic constructions of the book as follows: praxis-oriented, fluidity, radical, utopic with countless ...

  3. Critical thinking

    Critical thinking, in educational theory, mode of cognition using deliberative reasoning and impartial scrutiny of information to arrive at a possible solution to a problem. ... the release of the 1980 report of the Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities that called for the U.S. Department of Education to include critical thinking on its list ...

  4. Fostering and assessing student critical thinking: From theory to

    Critical thinking mainly aims at assessing the strength and appropriateness of a statement, theory, or idea, through a questioning and perspective-taking process, which may (or not) result in a possibly novel statement or theory. Critical thinking need not lead to an original position to a problem. The most conventional one may be the most ...

  5. PDF CRITICAL THINKING: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

    Critical thinking according to Paulo is an "academically disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualising, applying, analysing, synthesizing and/or evaluating information gathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and intention".

  6. Critical Thinking > History (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    History. This supplement elaborates on the history of the articulation, promotion and adoption of critical thinking as an educational goal. John Dewey (1910: 74, 82) introduced the term 'critical thinking' as the name of an educational goal, which he identified with a scientific attitude of mind. More commonly, he called the goal ...

  7. Philosophy of education

    Feminist, multiculturalist, and postmodern criticisms of education extend far beyond the issue of critical thinking, addressing much more general features of philosophy and educational theory and practice. These three critical movements are neither internally univocal nor unproblematically combinable; what follows is therefore oversimplified.

  8. The Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories of Education

    "This is a groundbreaking and comprehensive volume with insightful and cutting-edge perspectives in critical theories of education. It is a timely and essential text which, in depth and scope, will be of great value for students and scholars in the full range of the subfields of education." (N'Dri Assié-Lumumba, Professor and Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell ...

  9. Revisiting the notion of critical thinking in higher education

    Critical thinking in higher education. The origin of the modern conception of critical thinking, according to Ritola (Citation 2021), can be attributed to John Dewey's (Citation 1933) philosophy about reflective thinking, which is understood as an active consideration of a belief that leads to knowledge based on grounds.In other words, reflective thinking is a conscious effort involving ...

  10. Critical Thinking

    History. This supplement elaborates on the history of the articulation, promotion and adoption of critical thinking as an educational goal. John Dewey (1910: 74, 82) introduced the term 'critical thinking' as the name of an educational goal, which he identified with a scientific attitude of mind. More commonly, he called the goal ...

  11. A Model of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

    The first thing to do is to gain an understanding of critical thinking as it applies in higher education. One way of doing this would be to take the strategy of isolating negative instances of critical thinking, i.e., to say what critical thinking is not. This helps to delimit the boundaries of the concept.

  12. Developing Critical Thinking

    In a time where deliberately false information is continually introduced into public discourse, and quickly spread through social media shares and likes, it is more important than ever for young people to develop their critical thinking. That skill, says Georgetown professor William T. Gormley, consists of three elements: a capacity to spot ...

  13. 1 Introduction to Critical Thinking

    Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following: Understand the logical connections between ideas. Identify, construct, and evaluate arguments.

  14. Educating Critical Thinkers: The Role of Epistemic Cognition

    Proliferating information and viewpoints in the 21st century require an educated citizenry with the ability to think critically about complex, controversial issues. Critical thinking requires epistemic cognition: the ability to construct, evaluate, and use knowledge. Epistemic dispositions and beliefs predict many academic outcomes, as well as ...

  15. The importance of promoting critical thinking in schools: Examples from

    Critical thinking is widely regarded as an important component of school education. Particularly in the United States, Scandinavian, and Asian countries, critical thinking is heavily incorporated into school curricula (Terblanche & De Clercq, 2021).In this context, critical thinking is frequently associated with critical thinking skills (Facione, 1990), which can be taught through structured ...

  16. Bridging critical thinking and transformative learning: The role of

    In Part 1, I focus on critical thinking. I claim that theories of critical thinking ought to be augmented to account for the ability to bring about a position of doubt. I first consider two traditional critical thinking dispositions - reflection and open-mindedness - and argue that they are generally unsuccessful in this regard.

  17. Revisiting the origin of critical thinking

    Abstract. There are two popular views regarding the origin of critical thinking: (1) The concept of critical thinking began with Socrates and his Socratic method of questioning. (2) The term 'critical thinking' was first introduced by John Dewey in 1910 in his book How We Think. This paper argues that both claims are incorrect.

  18. A Brief History of the Idea of Critical Thinking

    The intellectual roots of critical thinking are as ancient as its etymology, traceable, ultimately, to the teaching practice and vision of Socrates 2,500 years ago who discovered by a method of probing questioning that people could not rationally justify their confident claims to knowledge. Confused meanings, inadequate evidence, or self ...

  19. Educational Methods

    Educational Methods. Experiments have shown that educational interventions can improve critical thinking abilities and dispositions, as measured by standardized tests. Glaser (1941) developed teaching materials suitable for senior primary school, high school and college students. To test their effectiveness, he developed with his sponsor ...

  20. Critical Thinking

    Approaches to teaching critical thinking vary, partly according to whether they focus on general principles of critical thinking or on subject-matter content or on a combination of both. A meta-analysis research report published in 2015 concluded that, subject to certain qualifications, a variety of critical thinking skills and dispositions can ...

  21. Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory

    In this paper we shall set out a stage theory based on the nearly twenty years of research of the Center for Critical Thinking and explain some of the theory's implications for instruction. We shall be brief, concise, and to the point in our explanation with minimal theoretical elaboration. Furthermore, we believe that the "practicality ...

  22. Fostering Critical Thinking Skills: Comparative Creative Projects in

    Including project-based learning (PjBL) in general education classes can serve a dual purpose for the general education instructor: first, well-designed project-based assignments allow students to practice many of the cognitive and metacognitive skills associated with critical thinking, and, second, they enable students to connect the material ...

  23. Critical Theories in Education

    This book examines critical theories in education research from various points of view in order to critique the relations of power and knowledge in education and schooling practices. It addresses social injustices in the field of education, while at the same time questioning traditional standards of critical theory. Drawing on recent social and lit

  24. Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the

    Paulo Freire is one of the most important critical educators of the twentieth century.[1] Not only is he considered one of the founders of critical pedagogy, but he also played a crucial role in developing a highly successful literacy campaign in Brazil before the onslaught of the junta in 1964. Once the military took over the government ...

  25. [2409.05511] Enhancing Critical Thinking in Education by means of a

    While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly playing a pivotal role in education by providing instantaneous, adaptive responses, their potential to promote critical thinking remains understudied. In this paper, we fill such a gap and present an innovative educational chatbot designed to foster critical thinking through Socratic questioning. Unlike traditional intelligent tutoring ...

  26. A multiple mediation model of thinking style, student ...

    This study adopted a framework based on social cognitive theory to explore the influence of thinking styles on critical thinking and multiple mediation effects of student assessors' assessment performance (scoring and review comments) between them. Samples were 97 graduate students enrolled in the "Seminar" course at a university. Students used an online assessment system and the ...

  27. Critical Thinking

    Critical thinking is a widely accepted educational goal. Its definition is contested, but the competing definitions can be understood as differing conceptions of the same basic concept: careful thinking directed to a goal. Conceptions differ with respect to the scope of such thinking, the type of goal, the criteria and norms for thinking ...

  28. Critical Reflection: John Dewey's Relational View of Transformative

    Recent works have suggested that we may gain new insights about the conditions for critical reflection by re-examining some of the theories that helped inspire the field's founding (e.g. Fleming, 2018; Fleming et al., 2019; Raikou & Karalis, 2020).Along those lines, this article re-examines parts of the work of John Dewey, a theorist widely recognized to have influenced Mezirow's thinking.

  29. A Bibliometric Analysis of Virtual Reality Research on Critical

    Incorporating virtual reality technology is one way to enhance critical thinking skills in education. However, only a few studies have looked into the effect of virtual reality on student responses and the factors that influence critical thinking skills. ... Zhang, W., & Wang, Z. 2021. Theory and practice of vr/ar in k-12 science education—a ...