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Critical Thinking as a Sustainable Learning Trait in the Classroom and Beyond
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Critical thinking skills taught in classrooms support learning in the workplace. This session examines the background of critical thinking, its role in the classroom and beyond that to the workplace.
Target Audience
The target audiences for this concurrent session are practitioners, teachers, faculty, academic advisors, and administrators of adult and continuing education programs. These audiences will benefit from the "art" of critical thinking in their academic as well as personal life.
Learning Outcomes
Attending this session, learners gain appreciation for critical thinking as a lifelong learning trait both in classrooms and workplaces. Critical thinking sustains the ability to detect and analyze the assumptions underlying the actions, decisions, and judgments. Participants will learn the results of NOT thinking critically often characterized by actions such as accepting ideas or facts at face value without testing assumptions. Participants are provided tips and tools to test these assumptions, to view them as unchecked or inappropriate, thus to avoid poor decisions and uninformed judgments.
Session Description
Critical thinking in the classroom is a common term used by educators. But how can critical thinking skills, learned in the classroom, sustain future learning? Do those critical thinking skills used in the classroom really transfer to the workplace? Critical thinking has been called "the art of thinking about thinking" (Ruggiero, V.R., 2012) with the intent to improve one's thinking. The challenge, of course, is to create learning environments that promote critical thinking both in the classroom and beyond. Teaching critical thinking provides students with the opportunity to understand and take charge of their learning. Students engaged in critical thinking approach the classroom experience differently. Typically, students engage more thoughtfully, ask more as well as better questions, and often participate more intensely. This session examines the background of critical thinking, its role in the classroom and beyond that to the workplace.
Ruggiero, V. R. (2012). The art of thinking: A guide to critical and creative thought (10th ed.). New York, NY: Longman.
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Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Linda Murawski, Tusculum College
Work Title
Adjunct Professor