Critical thinking

Training

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How our classes will change how you see the world. 

Critical thinking. A new buzzword, a must for the 21st-century job market. Increasingly institutions from higher education to business think tanks are looking for these skills. Yes, critical thinking may be a means to an end. For us, critical thinking is much more than that. Critical thinking helps us know ourselves better and expand our minds to appreciate the world’s complexities so we can be problem solvers in our own lives and our communities.

That’s great, but aren’t we always thinking?

Well, as the educator John Dewey has reminded us, thinking is not the same as allowing ideas to pass through our minds. Thinking involves constant refining, re-evaluating. Thinking is like a Ferris wheel on a journey, the mind returns again and again to find novel ways of understanding. So, thinking well, just like swimming well or playing the piano well, demands practice.

I already have a good job, I read a lot. I already got this!

Reading is great because reading can give you knowledge. What we do with this knowledge is the next step. Maybe the roadmaps that we often rely upon as we seek new information have gotten us into a comfortable, albeit, complacent stance towards novel ideas. Maybe we can be more inviting of other thoughts that challenge us. In the end, thinking is also a psycho-emotional process where we must let our intellectual guards down. This way we can challenge old pathways and paradigms. This is a lifelong process.

Sounds great! So what will I learn? 

We know that information is at our fingertips. We can find thousands of articles about critical thinking on the internet in seconds. But for critical thinking to make a difference in our lives, we have to train ourselves by practicing it, which we can’t get only by adding tools to our tool bag. This course will provide a framework from a phenomenological approach and ground thinking in theory of constructivism using theoretical grounding from Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky who are the pioneers of education and thinking. We will put to practice critical thinking, reviewing and evaluating what we know, and what we thought we knew. We believe thinking is not only a skill, it requires us to name and define our values, that we must look upon our experiences as we learn.