An Analysis of the Units “I’m Learning my Past” and “The Place where We Live” in the Social Studies Textbook Related to Critical Thinking Standards

Aybek, Birsel; Aslan, Serkan

doi:10.14689/ejer.2016.65.03

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“…The findings of the present research show that in the examined text, the cultivation of the critical thinking skills is not promoted sufficiently since this promotion does not occur with equal frequency per skill. This is consistent with the results of other relevant researches which examined textbooks and revealed that in their content, critical thinking is not promoted sufficiently (Khademi, 2020;Peyró et al,2020;Samiee et al, 2020;Al-Qahtani, 2019;Es-Salhi & Elfatihi, 2019;Irafahmi et al, 2018;Maki & Horita, 2018;Solihati & Hikmat, 2018;Aybek & Aslan, 2016;Sobkowiak, 2016).…”

Section: Critical Thinking Skillssupporting

confidence: 89%

Critical Thinking Within the Informatics Textbook of the Second Class of the Greek Lyceum

Oikonomidis¹,

Sofianopoulou²

2022

Education and New Developments 2022 – Volume I

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"It cannot be denied that there are always problems societies and individuals have to deal with. To confront these problems in living conditions that seem to be constantly and rapidly changing, specific competencies are needed. Critical thinking is indispensable in developing such competencies effectively. It can support identifying, constructing and evaluating arguments. It can also contribute in improving problem solving skills. Critical thinking is essential to develop decision making competencies and communication skills. Furthermore, people can use critical thinking in order to confront their biases, prejudices and stereotypes. It is clear that critical thinking is useful and necessary in multiple areas. For that reason, critical thinking is considered to be a key pedagogical goal in many levels of education. For this reason, modern education seeks to promote the cultivation of critical thinking. In particular, education of Informatics is strongly related to critical thinking. Students cannot develop skills related to Informatics if they cannot think critically. Therefore, critical thinking is essential for teaching Informatics subjects. Consequently, within the Informatics textbooks the cultivation of critical thinking skills should be promoted. The present research aims to determine whether there are critical thinking skills whose cultivation is equally promoted within the Informatics textbook of the second class of the Greek Lyceum. The method used in this paper is Qualitative Content Analysis, which is established in the social sciences for texts analysis. The findings of the present research revealed that within the examined textbook there are no critical thinking skills whose cultivation is equally promoted."

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Section: Critical Thinking Skillssupporting

confidence: 89%

Critical Thinking Within the Informatics Textbook of the Second Class of the Greek Lyceum

Oikonomidis¹,

Sofianopoulou²

2022

Education and New Developments 2022 – Volume I

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“…These standards are classified as clarity, accuracy, significance/relevance, sufficiency, breadth/depth, and precision (Aybek, Çetin, & Başarır, 2014). Clarity standard, whether concepts are clear; accuracy standard, accuracy, and reality of concepts; significance/relevance standard, giving examples of concepts from daily life and whether essential points are emphasized; proficiency standard, whether concepts and ideas are sufficient; breadth/depth standard, sufficiently deep and whether diverse perspectives are in concepts and ideas; the precision standard includes the precision and detail of the concepts and thoughts (Aybek & Aslan, 2016a). It can be said that textbooks are among the essential tools in acquiring critical thinking skills and standards for individuals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Examination of the Activities in the Unit "Solar System And Eclipses" in the 6th Grade Science Textbook in Terms of Critical Thinking Standards

Sarıtaş¹,

Şentürk²,

Aslan³

2022

J. Sci. Learn.

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The science curriculum aims to provide students with the identity of a researcher, thinking skills, and scientific process skills. Critical thinking skill emerges as one of the skills that should be emphasized in the teaching process in terms of its structural features and the qualities aimed to be given to individuals. For individuals to gain critical thinking skills, they must first gain critical thinking standards. The main purpose of this research is to examine the activities in the "Solar System and Eclipses" unit in the sixth-grade science textbook in terms of critical thinking standards. The qualitative research model was used in the research. The data source of the research is the sixth-grade science textbook used in the province of Isparta. The data of the research were collected using the document analysis method. In the analysis of the data, the analysis was made by applying the descriptive analysis method, one of the qualitative data analyses. In line with the analysis, in terms of critical thinking standards, the secondary school sixth-grade science textbook has been determined to meet the standards of clarity, accuracy, significance/relevance, sufficiency, breadth/depth, and precision at a high rate. Based on the research results, suggestions have been developed that textbooks from different disciplines should be examined in line with critical thinking standards and that the activities of different grade-level units in the science curriculum should be examined in terms of critical thinking standards.

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“…The level of success of teaching staff in teaching is seen from the success of their students so that it is said that great educators are educators who can provide inspiration for students [20,21]. According to [22,23] Educational innovations are ideas, goods, methods, which are perceived or observed as new things for individual or community outcomes, in the form of inversions (new discoveries) that are used to achieve educational goals or to solve them. Currently, students are asked to access knowledge and configure it independently [24,25] argues that lecturers apply innovative and interactive learning in bringing change in the teaching process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore creative thinking is needed in generating an idea to solve a problem and create a new approach. Meanwhile, group work is often a major component in solving problems [23,36]. Therefore the inquiry learning model has a good impact on learning.…”

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Towards improving the critical thinking skills of pre-service teachers in Indonesia

2019

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Critical thinking of students is needed in 21st century learning, the fact is the acquisition in the field is still low. Therefore this study aims to improve students' critical thinking skills using the inquiry model assisted with the ethnoconstructivism module. Methodology uses a quantitative design of a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design with a total sample of 64 students taken by purposive sampling technique. There were significant differences in terms of students' critical thinking between the control class and the experimental class. It can be underlined that the inquiry model with ethnoconstructivism has a significant influence on the way students think about cultural values compared to traditional groups.

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An Analysis of the Units “I’m Learning my Past” and “The Place where We Live” in the Social Studies Textbook Related to Critical Thinking Standards

Cited by 8 publications

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Critical Thinking Within the Informatics Textbook of the Second Class of the Greek Lyceum

Critical Thinking Within the Informatics Textbook of the Second Class of the Greek Lyceum

An Examination of the Activities in the Unit "Solar System And Eclipses" in the 6th Grade Science Textbook in Terms of Critical Thinking Standards

Towards improving the critical thinking skills of pre-service teachers in Indonesia

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