CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Task 2
tasks proposed by Stella Cottrell (2005) in her paper "What is critical thinking.
For me, the emotions that are most difficult to manage when others disagree with me are:
- Anger
- arrogant
- egocentric
- envious
- moody
- jealous
- unhappy
- sad
I deal with these by:
being calm and paying attention respectfully to the arguments of others. I also try to be prepared to accept my mistakes in case I am wrong. Also, I deal with sadness by studying harder next time and become aware of nothing is perfect and thing are changing continuously.
For me, the influences on my own thinking that I need to be most aware of so they don't prejudice my thinking are:
- bias
- dislikes
- conformism
- beliefs
I deal with this by being impartial with myself and by accepting that I have got some mistakes in my way of thing. Also, by not being content myself with my knowledge because I am aware of that what I know today cannot be useful tomorrow. so I have to be in constant change.
For me, the things I find most difficult about challenging the opinions of other people are:
- Science opinions
- religious opinions
- political issues
Do you recognise anything of yourself in Bodner's description of students?
Yes, I do. I recognise that I am a lazy student who believed everything other people have said. I have never had the capability of refuting with evidence what researchers in the field of education have made.
What effect would the approach he suggests have on your learning and understanding?
It has a positive effect because he invites us to think and reflect critically on the work of others. Also, in not giving everything people say for granted
Task 3.
Stephen Brookfield 's summary on creative and critical thinking.
Critical thinking is a process by which people became of aware of the assumptions which frame the way people think either in life decisions or normal things. It is at this point that people use critical thinking to figure out if all these assumptions are accurate or not. The person who thinks creatively is capable of view ideas from multiple points of view. This means that the person is able to go beyond normal things and get out of his comfort mental zone so as not to take everything for granted.
A creatively and critically informed action meets some conditions. They are based on evidence and experiences. Also, it is viewed from multiple perspectives.
When using the idea of critical thinking the word assumptions comes to our mind
So, students need to know the classification of assumptions which they can encounter which are: Causal assumptions, prescriptive assumptions, paradigm attak. One of the biggest problems with critical thinking is that when we use this word we are working with a very different understanding of what it is. There are four intellectual traditions which are analytical philosophy, natural science, critical theory, pragmatism.
