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Understanding Critical Thinking Skills

The document discusses the importance of critical thinking in learning and development, highlighting the difference between 'red thinking' (deliberate, self-assessing thought) and 'green thinking' (unconscious, instinctive thought). It emphasizes that critical thinking is a self-directed process that enhances the quality of learning and understanding. Historical references to thinkers like Francis Bacon and Socrates are provided to illustrate the long-standing significance of critical thinking.

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Understanding Critical Thinking Skills

The document discusses the importance of critical thinking in learning and development, highlighting the difference between 'red thinking' (deliberate, self-assessing thought) and 'green thinking' (unconscious, instinctive thought). It emphasizes that critical thinking is a self-directed process that enhances the quality of learning and understanding. Historical references to thinkers like Francis Bacon and Socrates are provided to illustrate the long-standing significance of critical thinking.

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Critical Thinking

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

VARUN SANGANI
Active Engagement In Lecture

 Person A states his/her understanding of what has been


said, then elaborates.

 Person B agrees or disagrees with the interpretation, or


adds to the interpretation, then gives an example of it,
relating the idea to something in life.
Active Engagement In
Lecture
Person A states his/her
understanding of what has
been said, then elaborates.

Person B agrees or disagrees


with the interpretation, or
adds to the interpretation,
then gives an example of it,
relating the idea to something
in life.
Active Engagement In Lecture
(cont.)

• Person B states his/her


understanding of what has been
said, then elaborates.
• Person A agrees or disagrees with
the interpretation, or adds to the
interpretation, then gives an
example of it, relating the idea to
something in life.
Why Concern
Ourselves With
Thinking?
Thinking tells
us:
• what there is
• what is happening
• what our problems are
• what our options are
• what threatens us
• what is important
• what is unimportant
• who our friends are
• who our enemies are
• what our “history” is
• who we are
• who loves us
Thinking determines:

• what we learn
• how we learn
• what we think is important to learn
• what effort we should expend
• what we think is true
• what we think is false
• how things should be viewed
• whether our learning is of high or low quality
• whether our learning is deep or superficial
Critical Thinking
Is a Self-Directed
Process
By Which We Take
Deliberate Steps
To Think at the
Highest Level of
Quality.
Red Thinking:
Higher order executive
functioning.
Thinking that analyzes,
assesses and improves green
Thinking.

Green Thinking:
Instinctive, automatic,
spontaneous thinking.
Unconsciously guided
Critical Thinking Is Not New
In 1605, Francis Bacon, wrote the first book on
critical thinking, The Advancement of Learning,
in which he documented various forms of
human irrationality and the need to establish
new habits of thought through education.

Socrates 2,400 years ago discovered by a


method of probing questioning that people
often could not rationally justify their
confident claims to knowledge.
Green Thinking
Unconscious Mixture Of High Quality
And Low Quality Thinking
Spontaneous Subconscious Uncontrolled
Impulsive Self protecting
Unanalyzed
Reflexive Self validating
Includes ideas that are valid, as well as nonsense,
confusion, stereotypes, prejudices. The key is that we
cannot distinguish the difference between high and low
quality thought in green thinking mode.
Green thinking goes without assessing itself.
Red Thinking
Red Thinking stops and assesses itself before
going forward.

Disciplined Seeks the truth Self assessing


Critical Thinking Self correcting Probing
In red thinking mode, we actively work to eliminate
prejudices, biases, dysfunctional thinking from
our thinking. We actively work on our thinking.
We rigorously apply intellectual standards to our
thinking.
The Critical Thinking Mind

=
The Educated Mind
Read Write
It
It

Substantive
Learning

Hear Apply
It Say It
It
Critical Thinking

Something you add onto everything else


Rather

The Way You Do


Everything You Do

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