Exponents of critical thinking emphasize the teaching of skills and dispositions for scrutinizing the assumptions, reasoning, and evidence brought to bear on an issue by others and by oneself. In short, they promote thinking about thinking. But how do students come to see where there are issues to be opened up and identify them without relying on some authority? The current form of my evolving answer is that people need support to grapple with inevitable tensions in personal and intellectual development—support to undertake journeys that involve risk, open up questions, create more experiences than can be integrated at first sight, require support, and yield personal change. In this essay I present five passages in a pedagogical journey t...
Critical thinking is one of the key attributes that crops up regularly in discussions concerning the...
Having studied philosophy intensely for ten years and then spent twenty years in the computer indust...
Critical thinking is an integral part of human life. However, it is not intentionally planned for an...
Exponents of critical thinking emphasize the teaching of skills and dispositions for scrutinizing th...
Ten years ago, I wrote an article for the Journal on helping students to think. The topic is even mo...
Guest editorial from: Dr Joe Allison (Learning Development Team Leader, University of Plymouth)
In this article I reflect on the problem that critical thinking skills are simultaneously seen as im...
As a student in the Critical and Creative Thinking Program I have learned about ways of thinking tha...
An explicit link between the issues of development and critical thinking is provided by Elder and Pa...
Critical thinking has been a controversial issue among philosophers, researchers and educationalists...
Critical thinking is a promised outcome of many degrees, yet courses in thinking are uncommon, and p...
Contemporary discussions of critical thinking lack serious consideration of students’ thinking-proce...
In the field of education, there is much discussion around the subtleties of teaching critical and c...
University students of all disciplines are expected to display critical thinking. Critical thinking ...
This article explores how when basic writing students are encouraged to value their thinking as they...
Critical thinking is one of the key attributes that crops up regularly in discussions concerning the...
Having studied philosophy intensely for ten years and then spent twenty years in the computer indust...
Critical thinking is an integral part of human life. However, it is not intentionally planned for an...
Exponents of critical thinking emphasize the teaching of skills and dispositions for scrutinizing th...
Ten years ago, I wrote an article for the Journal on helping students to think. The topic is even mo...
Guest editorial from: Dr Joe Allison (Learning Development Team Leader, University of Plymouth)
In this article I reflect on the problem that critical thinking skills are simultaneously seen as im...
As a student in the Critical and Creative Thinking Program I have learned about ways of thinking tha...
An explicit link between the issues of development and critical thinking is provided by Elder and Pa...
Critical thinking has been a controversial issue among philosophers, researchers and educationalists...
Critical thinking is a promised outcome of many degrees, yet courses in thinking are uncommon, and p...
Contemporary discussions of critical thinking lack serious consideration of students’ thinking-proce...
In the field of education, there is much discussion around the subtleties of teaching critical and c...
University students of all disciplines are expected to display critical thinking. Critical thinking ...
This article explores how when basic writing students are encouraged to value their thinking as they...
Critical thinking is one of the key attributes that crops up regularly in discussions concerning the...
Having studied philosophy intensely for ten years and then spent twenty years in the computer indust...
Critical thinking is an integral part of human life. However, it is not intentionally planned for an...