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Authentic critical thinking (ACT): a brief outline
Authentic critical thinking means to confront – rather than confirm – your biases and assumptions about the world.
Our key aim for the TOK course is to help students to become effective critical thinkers. But there are many different ways to define what critical thinking is, and this variation brings with it two problems.
First, it leads to a lack of consensus amongst educators in terms of what critical thinking looks like in the classroom, and how schools should promote it; second, it causes a lack of clarity for students, making it hard for them to evaluate their cognitive progress in terms of becoming effective critical thinkers.
Critical thinking is also better understood as being a more personal process than is sometimes understood, because before we can begin to identify how others try to mislead us, we must establish how we mislead ourselves. We need, in short, to leave our echo chambers – and we have to decide to do that for ourselves.
Finally, the best context for developing critical thinking is the real-world, which is why we term it authentic critical thinking (ACT).
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