SUMMARY: LECTURE BY STEPHEN BROOKFIELD

Creative & Critical Thinking

Taking into acount the ideas proposed in the previous video, Critical thinking becomes a human capacity that enhances the different skills people have in order to explain how answers to things are perceived. Being a teacher is more than the explanation of a class; a teacher is who facilitates and provides tools for students to think beyond the static knowledge.

Critical thinking is the process when people become aware of the assumptions that frames the way people think base don the knowledge but also the way people think of the set of aspects happen constantly. Someone who thinks creatively is able to communicate with others with facility. Critical thinking in this video is also perceived as the way of seeing the things from multiple perceptions.

Kinds of assumptions:

-          Causal: try to explain events

-          Prescripive: explain how things shoud happen

-          Paradigmatic: is the way we put together ideas and through common sense, we presen tour thoughts.

Critical thinking is the aplication of the scientific method. People have hypotheses that are proved or disproved by others.

A critical thinker is someone who has knowledge about different fields like politics, how people with power control the world. A good critical thinker is someone who does not see knowledge as an static thing. Knowledge is constantly opened to new perspectives,  points of view and ways of practising things.

Critical thinking should be implemented in classes and teachers are the instructors in that process. Discussions, chalk talk, debates and questions are the best strategies we as teachers can use in order to improve critical thinking skills on students. As students start questionning about many aspects we learn in the classroom, knowledge goes beyond learning from books.