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What is Critical Thinking?
What is Critical Thinking?
etymological meaning „kritikos "(gr.) to be able to make judgments," krinein " (gr.) - to separate, decide.
For ancient Greeks, it was considered an ability to make a decision based on a certain standard. In today’s context, it is understood as a set of specific dispositions and skills of a person that manifest in the context of thinking - helps to understand and decide what is true and what is false, what is right, correct or what is wrong.
Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking Skills
a person’s ability to interpret, analyze, synthesize, evaluate any kind of information, draw evidence-based conclusions, reflect, self-regulate, and make critical judgements.
Critical Thinking Dispositions
Critical Thinking Dispositions
a person’s attitudes or habit of mind that is an integral part of their beliefs and actions. Inquisitiveness, openness, analyticity, systematicity, intellectual empathy, perseverance, trust in reason notify a critically thinking person.
MIND Model
MIND Model
MIND Model reflects the process of developing Critical Thinking, which is a comprehensive, sequential but not closed and completely finished process. The thinking process itself is never complete, and the way it is experienced may vary from situation to situation. The process consists of 5 stages, which are closely linked but can be practised and experienced separately.
Evocation
Evocation
Evocation of learner’s interest into an idea, question, problem or issue, and willingness to explore further, dig deeper.
Key Questioning
Key Questioning
Key questioning of prior knowledge, experience, intuition for making assumptions, hypothesis about, an idea, a question, an issue.
Comprehension
Comprehension
Comprehension of a new content, studying and getting deeper into a question, an idea, a problem, a topic.
Reflection & Metacognition
Reflection & Metacognition
Reflection and metacognition that leads to evaluating and re-evaluating previously held beliefs and attitudes.
Decision Making & Acting
Decision Making & Acting
Decision making and action coming out of previously experienced process, gone through 1-4 stages.
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