TAILIEUCHUNG - Critical thinking through interdisciplinary texts

Critical thinking, the art of reasoning, is a high level academic skill. It can be taught using several other resources, one of them is the use of interdisciplinary texts. This writing aims at exploring how interdisciplinary texts can be supportive to enhance students' critical thinking skill and also comprises some recommendations for a successful delivery of these texts to enhance the target skill. It concludes that the use of interdisciplinary texts is a means to teach critical thinking skill but not an end. The judicious use of them to develop students' critical thinking skill is relevant. | CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY TEXTS Lok Raj Regmi ABSTRACT Critical thinking the art of reasoning is a high level academic skill. It can be taught using several other resources one of them is the use of interdisciplinary texts. This writing aims at exploring how interdisciplinary texts can be supportive to enhance students critical thinking skill and also comprises some recommendations for a successful delivery of these texts to enhance the target skill. It concludes that the use of interdisciplinary texts is a means to teach critical thinking skill but not an end. The judicious use of them to develop students critical thinking skill is relevant. GENERAL INTRODUCTION Critical thinking is understood as an ability to analyze evaluate and interpret ideas and arguments. In the words of Weston 2011 critical thinking leads us to certain skill for example keen eye for arguments the ability to look past vivid and to challenge the misleading statements . Critical thinking is an active process in which one has to think raise questions find relevant information .etc. rather than learning in a largely passive way from someone else. The tradition of applying critical thinking skill in reading dates back to Socrates the ancient Greek thinker and was followed by Plato and Aristotle respectively in their Philosophical discussions. It is no exaggeration to say that critical thinking attaches huge importance to reasoning as its key element and further it comprises the evaluation of the ideas expressed. John Dewey as cited in Fisher 2014 2 using the term reflective thinking defines critical thinking as an active persistent and careful consideration of a belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds which support it and the further conclusions to which it tends. Critical thinking an analysis evaluation interpretation of ideas analogies exhibited in the texts is an intellectual academic exercise. The skill of critical thinking completes a .

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• Critical thinking through
• Interdisciplinary texts
• High level academic skill
• Supportive to enhance students
• Comprises some recommendations
• Critical thinking
• Critical thinking basics
• Two kinds of reasoning
• Clear thinking
• Persuasion through rhetoric
• Related fallacies
• Clear writing
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