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The state of critical thinking today

✍ Scribed by Richard Paul

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Weight
68 KB
Volume
2005
Category
Article
ISSN
0194-3081

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Research demonstrates that most college faculty lack a substantive concept of critical thinking, though they mistakenly think otherwise. This chapter spells out the implications of such a robust concept and emphasizes that success in bringing a substantive concept of critical thinking to college faculty requires well‐planned, long‐term professional development based explicitly on the multiple dimensions of a substantive concept of critical thinking.

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