Investigating students' experiences from teaching based on developing critical thinking

Authors

• A Seiahi Atabaki
• N Keshtiaray
• M,H Yarmohammadian

Abstract

The goal of this study was to investigate students’ experiences in classrooms based on developing critical thinking. This research was qualitative and conducted at two levels. At the first level, all available digital and in print resources associated with critical thinking were used. And the second level was phenomenological study and included all high school male and female students in Marvdasht city who were selected using purposive sampling congruent. At the first level of the study, after reading the sources, note taking method was used to collect information, and at the second level the information was gathered using semi-structured interviews and then analyzed by a qualitative content analysis with inductive categorization. The result of the first part shows that critical thinking concept should be investigated in both fields of psychology and philosophy. While philosophers emphasis on the nature and quality of critical thinking, psychologists focus on cognitive process and components used to investigate the practical problems. So Philosophers emphasize on critical thinking attitudes but psychologists focus on critical thinking skills. In the second part findings showed that teaching in high schools classrooms and what students experience in classes aren’t based on developing critical thinking.

Keywords

• Students’ experiences
• Critical thinking skills
• Critical thinking attitudes

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