from Terry Haik
Every few months I see an article that makes the circles that critical thinking is not a skill and therefore cannot be taught.
And as it is also difficult to measure modern public education, it is guided by measurement, since an idea that sits in the corner, aside and silence.
Often these articles are in terms of conversation or research related to Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, who is often associated with this type of claim. Although my instinct is to disagree, Willingham, of course, knows more about this topic than I, so my goal here is not to dispute this statement.
However, I think it is possible to mislead what it means to think critically that I have written about (though not often or well enough) many times. In The definition of critical thinkingFor example, I said:
Critical thinking is one of the first reasons for change (personal and social), but it is a steam in schools – for another reason, it is not a condition for the mind to suspect the form and function of everything it sees, including your classroom and everything that is taught in it. Of course, critical thinking without knowledge is disturbingly empty, like a farmer without a field. They need each other – thoughts and knowledge. They can also disappear into each other while working. Once we find that – that they are separate, capable of merge and need each other – we can reach the brain and be afraid of this whole thing.
Terry Haik
After watching the effect of misinformation on the last national and global events, it occurred to me that critical thinking was less skill and more desire or habit. In short, critical thinking is thinking. As I said before reading – for example, in Why should students read– This is important students can Read, they are more important make Read.
And critical thinking – thinking rationally, with reason and evidence, humility and knowledge, understanding and skepticism – is similar: it is important students can Think critically, but it is more important that they make Think critically.
In this way, critical thinking must be thinking.
Critical thinking is a state of mind
Arstechnica (somewhat) recently wrote about how fixed thoughts hurt thinking when discussing Why only 24% can solve the problems of Bayesan reasoning in natural frequencies: frequency phobia, despite the probability blindnessS
Just as one can say, readiness To do this, preceded and seizures from a multiple collection of assumptions and premises and trends and cognitive defaults, and even ultimately, personality traits that manifest yourself when you read a book or have a discussion or skip a news title or research an idea.
Critical thinking is certainly a “skill”, but when possessed as thinking – playful and humble readiness – it shifts from work to art. He asks, “Is this true? What is the standard? Who wouldn’t agree and why? What is the story of this question or topic? What do I miss? What kinds of knowledge do I miss to understand this more closely and how can I acquire them?
Critical thinking as a skill tries to understand.
Critical thinking as thinking is read and listened to as a witness and is persecuted by what he does not know and cannot rationallyS
Critical thinking is not emotional because his identity is not enveloped in opinion or “faith” and being “wrong” is valuable because it brings us closer to “right”.
Critical thinking is almost impossible to apply without any bias, but as thinking, it observes its own biases (see definition confirmation addictionFor example) as a guard can look for strangers.
Critical thinking is slow to decide and cannot be “resolved” at all because he realizes that he has to think again before new evidence. And again. And again.
And in thinking, it is good with the work of all this, because it appreciates reasoning more than favorable with the crowds; This favors accuracy perceived Accuracy and encounter with all circumstances with wide open and humble and curious, seeking to understand and scare to the death of biases and incomplete knowledge and logical delusions and other cognitive behaviors that can mislead him.
Do you see? Critical thinking is a skill, but it is also a tendency and a line and light instrument in the dark for many to become a thinking-as a way of knowledge and a way of being.
And all this is part of the way you teach it as a skill – much like teaching students how to read, not why – is part of our challenge in education. As usual, we ask the wrong questions.
Critical thinking is thinking
