Critical Thinking as a Crucial Issue in Education: The Effect of the Teacher`s Performance and Cross-Culture Response (Published)
The movement to the information age has focused attention on good thinking as an important element of life success (Huitt, 1995; Thomas & Smoot, 1994). These changing conditions require new outcomes, such as critical thinking, to be included as a focus of schooling. Old standards of simply being able to score well on a standardized test of basic skills, though still appropriate, cannot be the sole means by which we judge the academic success or failure of our students.The purpose of this brief overview is to review what we know about critical thinking, how it might be differentiated from creative thinking, and to suggest future research and implementation activities.
Citation: Kamal Osman Sharfi Mohamed (2022) Critical Thinking as a Crucial Issue in Education: The Effect of the Teacher`s Performance and Cross-Culture Response, British Journal of Education, Vol.10, Issue 5, pp. 59-66
Keywords: Appropriate, Critical thinking, Implementation, basic skills
School Leadership’s Relation to Teachers’ Use of Critical Thinking as An Instructional Strategy (Published)
The purpose of this case study is to investigate the educational practices that school leadership, more specifically teacher leadership in a Colorado high-achieving elementary school, utilized to promote student talk as an active learning strategy. Sampling process was based primarily on three criteria: 1. An elementary school sustained high academic achievement; 2. The student population in the elementary school has high low socioeconomic status (SES); and 3. The teachers in the elementary school utilized different form of critical thinking as an instructional strategy to promote teaching and learning effectiveness. The researchers used the report from the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), which indicated five the high-achieving schools with high low SES population in the state of Colorado. Eventually, one school accepted the invitation for this research and the researchers arranged one-on-one interviews with seven teacher leaders. The results from this case study indicated that “student talk” is an effective instructional strategy used in the classroom to increase student engagement in the learning process and eventually promote student school success. This study provided some implications for policy makers, administrators, and educators to assist in the implementation of critical thinking as an instructional strategy that supports student achievement.
Keywords: Critical thinking, Instructional strategy, Teaching Effectiveness, student achievement; low socioeconomic status
Towards A Critical Thinking-Based Curricular and Pedagogical Innovations for Sustaining Democracy in Nigeria (Published)
Democracy, in addition to being a political system is also a way of life that is so admired that it has become a global model. Unfortunately those ingredients and flavour that make democracy the global ideal are terribly lacking in Nigeria, in addition to democracy not having any stronghold in Nigeria. Using the philosophical method, the paper raises sign posts on how critical thinking based curricular and pedagogical innovations can be a relief in reinventing and sustaining democracy in Nigeria. The position of the paper is that there is no substitute to positive thinking and positive thinking especially at the evaluative, insightful and critical thinking levels, can proffer solutions for resolving the pessimism that surrounds democracy in Nigeria. The paper makes recommendations, part of which include developing learners’ curiosity for participation in the democratic processes, the development of learners autonomous moral thinking as well as identifying live problems that threaten democracy and making such the subjects of arguments, dialogues and deliberations
Keywords: Critical thinking, Curriculum, Democracy, Nigeria, Pedagogy
The Effectiveness of Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model in the Tenth Grade Students Acquisition of Scientific concepts in science and the Development of critical Thinking skills and their Attitude towards Science (Published)
The purpose of this study is to design the light module for the tenth grade students is Jordan depending on Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model. It also aimed at identifying the effectiveness of Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model in teaching the light module in the development of scientific concepts acquisition with the tenth grade students as well as identifying the effectiveness of Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model in teaching the light module in the development of critical thinking skill among the tenth grade students. The researcher selected the study sample from the tenth grade female students in Mafraq Directorate of Education. The study produced a number of results and recommendations the most prominent of which are: There is a statistically significant effect for Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model in the acquisition of the tenth grade students to scientific concepts in the subject of science, and that there is a statistically significant effect for Marzano’s Dimensions of Learning Model in the development of critical thinking skills and the students’ attitudes toward science. In addition, the researcher recommends the necessity of holding training and educational courses for the basic stage teachers that explain the importance of Marzano’s learning model and how to stimulate the students to learn through the available strategies that suit the surrounding environment of their schools.
Keywords: Critical thinking, Marzano's Model, current electricity., learning dimensions, scientific concepts