CRITICAL THINKING: Critical thinking is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, partially true, or false. Critical thinking is a process that leads to skills that can be learned, mastered and used. Critical thinking is a tool by which one can come about reasoned conclusions based on a reasoned process. This process incorporates passion and creativity, but guides it with discipline, practicality and common sense. Critical thinking has been defined as: --The mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. ---Disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence. --Reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. --Purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based. --Disciplined, self-directed thinking which exemplifies the perfection of thinking appropriate to a particular mode of domain of thinking. (Paul, 1989, p. 214)
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:31:00 +0000
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