jmblanusa
So what is Critical Thinking?
People ask me this often. I've been teaching and writing about critical & creative thinking all my professional life. For 35 years. What am I really saying when I say I foster, teach, develop critical and creative thinking skills? Here's a spontaneous list... I'm sure I'll come up w/ more once I've hit published. But here goes, in no particular order:
analysis
evaluation
comprehension
acquisition of facts
synthesis
application
problem solving
decision making
self reflection
praxis
narratives
frameworks/mindsets
world views
dispositions
neuroplasticity
flow
flexible thinking
suspending one's ego
meta-cognition
theory of mind
logos, mythos, pathos, ethos
moral reasoning
deliberation
discussion
perspective taking
executive functioning
organization
organizing thoughts
categorization
paradigms
socratic thinking
insight
privileging data/knowledge/observations
durable categories
bias
unpacking & surfacing assumptions
unpacking & surfacing conclusions
unpacking & surfacing judgments
weighting data; data sets.....