CriticalThinkingReview

Re-view of how critical thinking is taught

Recent syllabi

Various
Fall 2015, online

Collaborative explorations (CEs) on Rethinking Critical Thinking, Fall 2015

Inquiry and discussion posts welcome from members of the CCT community (on http://bit.ly/CCRPgplus, in parallel with the Fall 2015 course [above])
September How do people have their thinking changed?

• A CE in which participants practice applying critical thinking at the same time as developing their own direct or indirect approach to fostering critical thinking in others.

October Everyone can think critically!

• A CE in which participants learn as much as possible about how critical thinking is presented and promoted by others.

November Manifesto and Plan for Practice in Critical Thinking

• A CE in which participants formulate specific plans for how to continue your own development as a critical thinker and, as a result, be able to foster the same among colleagues or students in your work/life/teaching situation.

• To members of CCT community: If you read the description for the CEs and any of them interest you, in the sense of wanting to look into some angle related to the scenario in the CE, then that is what we are looking for. If none of them grab you, feel free to sit back and watch what others post on http://bit.ly/CCRPgplus. Peter adds: "The experience of taking CCT 601 students through the sequence of these three CEs (and other experimental class activities) plus the contributions of the CCT community to these CEs will, I am sure, help me clarify my thinking about teaching critical thinking, but no need for CE participants to be governed by what bugs me."

Personal thought-pieces

Peter: Issues, in brief, include: using as cases the varieties of approaches to changing people's thinking; indirect approach to promoting critical thinking; a syllabus using Collaborative explorations; a revised KAQF; research on supporting people to build their own supportive context
Arthur
Jeremy
Orin