Critical Thinking and Learning

Mason, Mark

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“…McPeck (1981) argues, if one does not know much about nuclear physics, it would be difficult to think critically about the subject. We may agree with Mason (2008) that "the demands of the global economy which apparently needs active, creative and critical workers who are 'life-long' and 'life-wide' learners". However, we reserve to disagree with any potentially implied continuation to this thought that mangles curricula in a manner that steers education away from holistic to industry-specific targets and objectives.…”

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Sustainability Education-A Challenge for South-East Asia and Europe

Karchner-Ober¹

2011

Journal of Social Sciences

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Problem statement: South-East Asia and Europe face rapid changes in social, economical and political terms. Though starting points are different, both regions experience similar problems. We see a strong slowdown of economic growth; changing proportions of the population through migration, natural disasters, economic reasons and aging populations. Problems and conflicts occur in the first decade of the new millennium, as a lot of changes in the educational sector have been undertaken. This study deals with sustainability education in both regions. Approach: In particular, we compare issues of higher education in Malaysia and Germany. We explore current tendencies and changes from various perspectives and how they fit into a concept of sustainability education. (Or is it education to sustainability, respectively sustainable education?) Results: It is shown, that sustainability in the educational field is possible only, if related to a socio-cultural context that considers the disposition of the individual; instead of using assumptions gathered and subsequently transferred from a society distinct in its predominant descriptors, respectively from determinators of some abstract industrial process demands. Conclusion: Sustainable education is recognized as a not a priori transferable entity in the global context. It must rather be contextualized and suitably embedded into individual and divers societal environs.

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Sustainability Education-A Challenge for South-East Asia and Europe

Karchner-Ober¹

2011

Journal of Social Sciences

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“…Mason (2008) admits that critical thinking includes a deep knowledge of oneself, in which intellectual courage and humility are needed. Worse, Weissberg (2013) helps prove that teaching critical thinking is redundant for talented students who already possess a high level of critical mind.…”

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Reasoning Critical Thinking: Is It Born or Made?

Wang¹,

Zheng²

2016

TPLS

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Abstract-There is a heated debate over whether critical thinking can be taught in the educational field for the reasons that its definition is seldom comprehensively given and universally accepted by the academia, as well as its value and impacts on the development of learners' critical thinking skills. Focusing on the practical use of critical thinking, the main concern in this paper is whether critical thinking can be taught, particularly in an EFL classroom. The reflection on several conceptions and characteristics of critical thinking will be firstly introduced. When discussing these accounts, the reasons that why it is challenging to teach critical thinking as well as why it can be taught in previous relevant literature will be presented. Then the current situations of critical thinking skills taught in the classroom, taking a Chinese EFL classroom for an example, will be illustrated and finally the reasons why it is popular as a tool in teaching and learning will be discussed.

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“…In the same light, Mason (2007) reviewed the writings of those who have an important stake in constructing the education of critical thinking such as Robert Ennis, Richard Paul, John McPeck, Harvey Siegel, Jane Roland Martin and others. According to Mason (2007), although some other thinkers such as Walters and Phelan influenced by Martin suggest that critical thinking respond to the practical realm rather than solely the realm of reason, the aim of critical thinking still remains the same: personal cognitive development based on certain thinking skills and disciplines of knowledge.…”

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“…According to Mason (2007), although some other thinkers such as Walters and Phelan influenced by Martin suggest that critical thinking respond to the practical realm rather than solely the realm of reason, the aim of critical thinking still remains the same: personal cognitive development based on certain thinking skills and disciplines of knowledge. If there is something new, it is merely to use practical wisdom to substitute logical argumentation and analysis.…”

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Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience

Liu¹

2015

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Critical Thinking and Learning

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Sustainability Education-A Challenge for South-East Asia and Europe

Sustainability Education-A Challenge for South-East Asia and Europe

Reasoning Critical Thinking: Is It Born or Made?

Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience

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