Friday, October 15, 2010

Understanding Critical Thinking


Critical thinking is a thinking to think what in your thinking about what one is thinking. Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
Critical thinking is that mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. Critical thinking includes standards, elements and traits. The elements are the purpose, point of view, questions, implications, inferences, information, assumptions, conclusions and concepts.
Critical thinking is, in short, self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent to rigorous standards of excellence and command of their use. It entails effective communication and problem solving abilities and a commitment to overcome our native egocentrism.
Hence, understanding of critical thinking is highly important and hat is just not for the sake of just passing the course but to build its understanding in real.

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