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    Siksha Srijan Academy ( CT ) 2nd Semester

    Some Prominent Features of Critical Thinking


    Critical Thinking Is Reflective
    Critical thinking is different from just thinking. It is metacognitive—itinvolves
    thinking about your thinking. If I enter a social studies coursewhere one of the
    topics to be studied is conformity, it is likely that Ialready have views about
    conformity: what it is, how prevalent it is,what influences people to conform or not
    conform. I have these viewseven if I haven’t formulated them explicitly for myself.
    Each view is anexample of thinking, but not necessarily an example of critical
    think-ing. Critical thinking starts once I reflect on my thinking: Why do Ihave
    these views about conformity? Since my views are really conclu-sions I have
    drawn, what evidence are they based on? How do otherpeople look at conformity
    differently? What are their views based on?How can I tell which are more accurate,
    their views or mine?
    Critical Thinking Involves Standards
    Critical thinking involves having my thinking measure up to criteria.I can think
    about something accurately or inaccurately. I can use evi-dence that is relevant to
    an issue or irrelevant, or somewhere inbetween. When I reason out and try to
    understand the main ideas ina course I’m taking, I can do so on a superficial level
    or I can try tounderstand them deeply, trying to get at the heart of the
    matter.Accuracy, relevance, and depth are examples of standards or cri-teria. The
    words critical and criteria come from the same root,meaning “judgment.” For my
    thinking to be critical thinking, I haveto make judgments that meet criteria of
    reasonableness.
    Critical Thinking Is Authentic
    Critical thinking, at its heart, is thinking about real problems.Although you can
    reason out puzzles and brain-teasers, the essence ofcritical thinking comes into
    play only when you address real prob-lems and questions rather than artificial
    ones. Critical thinking is farmore about what you actually believe or do. It is about
    good judg-ment. Puzzles and narrow problems may help occasionally when
    youwant to hone or practice special skills, but even those skills help onlyif you
    consciously transfer them to real-life settings. Honing yourskills at guessing the
    endings of murder mysteries is not likely to begood preparation for becoming a
    criminal investigator. In murdermysteries, all the clues are provided, the murderer
    is one of the char-acters, and someone (the author) already knows the
    murderer’sidentity. None of that is so in a criminal investigation.Real problems are
    often messy. They have loose ends. They areusually unclear: clarifying and
    refining them are part of thinkingthrough them. They often have no single right
    answer. But there arewrong answers, even disastrous answers: there may not be
    any uniqueright person to take as your partner in life, but there are certainlypeople
    it would be disastrous to choose.

    Three Parts of Critical Thinking


    Full-fledged critical thinking involves three parts.
    First, criticalthinking involves asking questions. It involves asking questionsthat
    need to be asked, asking good questions, questions that go to theheart of the matter.
    Critical thinking involves noticing that there arequestions that need to be
    addressed.
    Second, critical thinking involves trying to answer thosequestions by reasoning
    them out. Reasoning out answers to ques-tions is different from other ways of
    answering questions. It isdifferent from giving an answer we have always taken for
    granted butnever thought about. I
    Third, critical thinking involves believing the results of ourreasoning. Critical
    thinking is different from just engaging in a men-tal exercise. When we think
    through an issue critically, we internalizethe results. We don’t give merely verbal
    agreement: we actually

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