Critical thinking is the general term given to a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions. These skills are needed to effectively identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and truth claims, to discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases, to formulate and present convincing reasons in support of conclusions, and to make reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to do and what to believe. Participants will be presented with the framework of critical thinking skills and a discussion of integrating critical (disciplined) thinking and writing into their health curricula. The fundamentals of critical thinking will be introduced as the elements of reasoning. The use of intellectual standards to assess reasoning will be explored. Critical thinking dispositions drives intellectual commitment to critical thinking skills which guides behavior. These relationships will be discussed as essential to habitual use of critical thinking skills. See www.criticalthinking.org
Learning Objectives: The learner will: 1. integrate a set of skills to process and generate information and beliefs. 2. use these skills to guide behavior based on intellectual commitment. 3. identify the elements of reasoning. 4. re-construct the elements of reasoning when deliberating and writing about health issues. 5. engage in the process of critical analysis using the elements of reasoning when interpreting, justifying and evaluating a health issue. 6. draw justifiable conclusions on the basis of logical reasoning.
Keywords: Health Education Strategies, Curricula
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