By Yashodhara Pant (Nepal) Introduction The world gets more complex every day. There is only one way to cope – through command of our mind. Thinking more effectively gives us greater control over our life, helps one deal better with adversity. Effective thinking is no mystery. It consists of practical skills which one can acquire through critical thinking. Everyday work and life are an endless sequence of decisions. Some of the decisions are small and insignificant, and some are hefty continue...

Critical Thinking or What makes Thinking Critical?! Concept (in progress) Authors: Nicu Cretu and Veronica Cretu, Lia Sclifos, Serghei Lisenco – “CMB” Training Center, Moldova Thinking on Thinking  … Much has been said and written during the past years about the term “critical thinking”.  Many definitions can be found today on Internet as well as in the printed media on the meaning of this term.  Most of the definitions for the “critical thinking” are often too broad and continue...

Bloom’s taxonomy is a very well-known classification of learning. Educators use Bloom’s when creating curriculum as a way of defining the level of cognitive thinking skills they want students to exhibit when learning specific material. Higher order thinking skills like application and analysis are generally tied to more upper-division curriculum, while lower order thinking skills like knowledge and comprehension are found in objectives of lower-division courses. Critical thinking continue...

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project Critical thinking definitions Critical Thinking Definitions “Critical thinking is the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome. It is used to describe thinking that is purposeful, reasoned and goal directed – the kind of thinking involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculating likelihoods, and making decisions when the thinker is using skills that are continue...

An interesting work by Alec Fisher on Critical Thinking, how to improve it, definitions, the language of reasoning and much more …  http://assets.cambridge.org/052100/9847/sample/0521009847ws.pdf continue...

Delphi Report “We understand critical thinking to be purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based. CT is essential as a tool of inquiry. As such, CT is a liberating force in education and a powerful resource in one’s personal and civic life. While not synonymous with good continue...

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally. 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 detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning solve problems systematically identify the relevance and importance of ideas reflect on the justification of one’s own beliefs and continue...

Definition of Critical Thinking has been always debatable. Having a definition of critical thinking in the project has its advantages and disadvantages. We did not have any clear definition of what is critical thinking in our project, and it would be very interesting to experiment what it is like to have a definition of critical thinking… Colorado Department of Higher Education defines Critical Thinking as a competence. I like this approach very much, though I do not agree with all continue...

Critical thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge about the world. Another way to describe it is reasonable, reflective, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. A person who thinks critically can ask appropriate questions, gather relevant information, efficiently and creatively sort through this information, reason logically from this information, and come to reliable and trustworthy conclusions about the continue...

The goal of critical thinking is to arrive at the most reasonable beliefs and take the most reasonable actions. We have evolved, however, not to seek the truth, but to survive and reproduce. Critical thinking is an unnatural act. By nature, we’re driven to confirm and defend our current beliefs, even to the point of irrationality. We are prone to reject evidence that conflicts with our beliefs and to attack those who offer such continue...