Critical thinking

What is critical thinking?

Health education in the New Zealand curriculum has relied on critical thinking as an important part of learning and knowledge building. It is recognised globally as an important skill for learning and for work. 

Critical thinking helps students to become adventurous 'big picture' thinkers who can generate innovative solutions to problems, by using their reasoning skills to analyse and evaluate  situations and toplan and think strategically. 

Critical thinking enables students to:

• Evaluate their own thinking and behaviour on wellbeing issues 

• Make fair, resonable and defensible decisions about issues impacting their own, others and community wellbeing 

• Take individual and collective action to address social, cultural, economic, and political inequities 

• Challenge actions that fail to do this