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Barriers To Critical Thinking Across Domains, Reed Geertsen
Barriers To Critical Thinking Across Domains, Reed Geertsen
Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications
The transfer of critical thinking across domains presents both a significant
challenge and meaningful opportunity for college education as well as
programs of continuing education and · efforts to encourage lifelong learning.
After examining different approaches to teaching critical thinking, this paper examines some of
the barriers to transfer across domains using an interactionist perspective. This perspective
underscores the fact that developing and using critical thinking is a lifelong endeavor due to the
tunnel-vision tendencies that naturally follow from situated learning in a particular domain. Two
case studies are presented to illustrate the potential blinding effects of situated learning
resulting …