Critical thinking is a core goal of higher education, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development citing it as ‘among the most important skills that young adults ...

Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that studying liberal arts or the humanities is a waste of time or, at the very least, hardly the most sagacious path for college students to ...

General education programs are a perennial source of consternation for faculty, administrators and students alike. The challenges, from one institution to another and from one decade to another, read ...

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Critical thinking too often falls by the wayside in schools because there is a lack of consensus about how to teach it, and even what critical thinking is. One of the age-old goals of education is ...

A simple classroom question can open up a far deeper lesson. When a teacher asks why the sky appears blue or whether a viral ...

I recently enjoyed the opportunity to give a talk on Integrating Critical Thinking into Educational Settings to fellow university educators from a diverse range of disciplines—all with the common ...

Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group).

This article is authored by Partha Chatterjee, Dean of Academics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR.