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Truth, Rhetoric, And Critical Thinking, Lajos L. Brons
Truth, Rhetoric, And Critical Thinking, Lajos L. Brons
Lajos Brons
Despite the extraordinary amount of attention critical thinking has received in the last few decades, the teaching and fostering of critical thinking in higher education is largely failing, and critical thinking has become an empty buzzword. However, given its importance as an aim of education, it needs to be “refilled”, but that is possible only after identifying the causes of the current failure, i.e. the obstacles to fostering critical thinking. Three such obstacles are identified in this paper, two actual and one hypothetical: (1) the lack of clarity and agreement about what critical thinking is, (2) current teaching practice, and …
Ctips, Issue 3: Critical Thinking In The Liberal Education History Course, Carolyn G. Hartz
Ctips, Issue 3: Critical Thinking In The Liberal Education History Course, Carolyn G. Hartz
CTips: Newsletter on Critical Thinking
In this issue are two brief articles:
"Critical thinking in the liberal education history course" by Prof. Jeff Mullins
"Critical thinking and the literary imagination" by Prof. Judy Dorn.