Pathology of teaching critical thinking in Iran's educational system/with the perspective of life school

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mina ranjbari ¹
• saeed mazboohi ²
• sadraddin sattari ¹

¹ Department of Educational Sciences, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran

² Department of Education, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

10.30495/jedu.2022.26685.5336

Abstract

Introduction: Critical thinking is one of the most basic subjects of Dewey's school of life and ideas. The current research was conducted with the aim of the pathology of critical thinking education in Iran's educational system
Research Methodology: This research is a survey and the statistical population is 6400 managers, counselors, assistants and teachers of the third district of Tehran.
Using simple random sampling method, 140 people were selected in two groups of 70 men and women. The measurement tool of this research is the Watson-Glyers standard critical thinking test, which measures critical thinking ability through 80 questions in five components of inference skills, identification of inference assumptions, interpretation and interpretation, and evaluation. Questionnaire data were analyzed using SPss 22 program
Findings: Except in the interpretation skill, which was 5% error level in men, with a difference of 8% more than women, in other four skills, women scored more. 5 The difference between the two groups was 27.8% in inference, 25.1% in identifying assumptions, 33.5% in inference, and 14.4% evaluation was obtained
Conclusion: In general, the score of critical thinking is not acceptable and at a high level, and it shows that this important matter is weak in the educational system

Keywords

• pathology
• school of life
• teaching critical thinking

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