Barriers to Critical Thinking Inside & Outside the Classroom November 13, 10:00 US Eastern Time—Please note earlier startChristopher P. Dwyer, PhD Abstract:Critical thinking (CT) is a metacognitive process, consisting of a number of skills and dispositions – that, through purposeful, self-regulatory reflective judgment, increases the chances of producing a logical solution to a problem orContinue reading “Critical Thinking in the Real-World:”
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So You Like to Argue? Here’s Your Chance
Call for Abstracts – Arguing for Sport Formal debate has been a staple of fostering competency in critical thinking since … well, Plato’s time at least. By now, there are dozens of styles, with varying degrees of adversariality, conditions for winning and topical constraints. To many students, debate was a life-changing experience that had aContinue reading “So You Like to Argue? Here’s Your Chance”