1. Critical Reflection
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2. Who are Critical Thinkers?
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3. Sternberg (1985) points out that “the problems of thinking in the real world do not correspond well with the problems of the large majority of programs that teach critical thinking. We are preparing students to deal with problems that are in many respects unlike those that they will face as adults” (p.194).
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4. Who are Critical Thinkers?
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Critical Thinkers?
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We are critical thinkers whenever we question why we, or our partners, behave in certain ways.
Critical thinking is evident whenever employees question a certain technique, mode of production, or organizational form.
Citizens who question the activities of local, regional, and national government offices.
Television viewers who are skeptical of the neutrality and objectivity of television’s reporting of political events are critical thinkers.

5. What does it mean to Think Critically? Who are Critical Thinkers
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6. ONE TWO THREE FOUR Thinking critically means: Who are
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7. Emancipatory Learning
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To think critically?
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Emancipatory Learning
Dialectical Thinking
Dialogical Thinking
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8. Critical Reflection Who are Critical Thinkers
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9. What is Critical Reflection?
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Reflective thinking/learning may be defined as the process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, and which results in a changed conceptual perspective.

10. Some researchers view reflection as a generic term for:
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intellectual and affective activities
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which individuals engage to explore their experiences
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in order to lead to new understandings and appreciation

11. AND The outcome of these activities is a change in assumptions:
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the world
about oneself
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requiring a corresponding change in one’s behavior and
relationships.

12. Critical Helper Who are Critical Thinkers
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13. Who are Critical Helpers?
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As the facilitator of your class or workshop, you become the critical helper - the facilitator, teacher, instructor or trainer. We try to awaken, prompt, nurture, and encourage the critical thinking process without making people feel threatened or patronized. These are the skills of critical helpers.
Competent
Communicator
Risk Taker
Courageous
Humble

14. Critical Teaching Who are Critical Thinkers
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15. Models of Critical Teaching
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In various research studies critical teaching regards the chief component of this activity as building on learners’ past experiences and existing mental structures to lead them from concrete operations to more abstract, reflective ways of thinking.
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Observing role models to help us imaging, define, and practice the kinds of behaviors we would like to exhibit in our own lives is one of the most common means by which we learn.
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People who are perceived as good role models by those who have fallen within their influence appear to exhibit certain features. These people are sometimes described as mentors or facilitators, the qualities they are perceived as exhibiting are precisely those of effective modelers.
They exhibit the following characteristics:

16. Clarity Openness Specificity Consistency Accessibility
Communicativeness
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References
Sternberg, R.J. (1985).  "Teaching Critical Thinking, Part l:  Are We Making Critical Mistakes?" Phi Delta Kappa, 67(3),
Brookfield, S.D. (1987).  Developing Critical Thinkers:  Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking & Acting.  San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers.
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