Diagrams Helpful 9 for Understanding Critical Thinking and Its ...

9

Diagrams Helpful

for Understanding

Critical Thinking and

Its Relationship with

Teaching and Learning

This section entails diagrams which can help you:

1. make connections between the critical thinking concepts discussed in this book,

2. better understand the relationship between critical thinking and teaching and learning, and

3. see the relevance of critical thinking to all subjects, disciplines and domains of human life.

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Diagrams for Understanding Critical Thinking

To Analyze Thinking We Must Identify

and Question its Elemental Structures

8

to answer a

question or

solve a

problem.

7

based on

concepts and

theories

6

to make

inferences and

judgements

4

8

1

within a

point of view

5

based on

assumptions

What is my

fundamental

purpose?

Universal

Structures

of Thought

6 What are my

most fundamental

inferences or

conclusions?

What

information

do I need to

answer my

question?

2

3

leading to

implications and

consequences.

5

What is the

key question I

am trying to

answer?

What is

the most basic

concept in the

question?

Whenever

we think

we think for a

purpose

Universal

Structures

of Thought

We use

data, facts,

and experiences

7

1

2

What is my

point of view

with respect to

the issue?

What

assumptions am

I using in my

reasoning?

3

What

are the

implications

of my reasoning

(if I am correct)?

4

Taken from ¡°The Thinker¡¯s Guide to Analytic Thinking¡±, page 7

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Critical Thinking Handbook: K¨C3

Questions for Socratic Dialogue

Questions that Probe Assumptions

Questions of Clarification

Questions that Probe Information,

Reasons, Evidence, and Causes

Questions that Probe Purpose

Continued on page 287

Taken from ¡°The Thinker¡¯s Guide to The Art of Socratic Questionning¡±, pages 20-23

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Diagrams for Understanding Critical Thinking

Questions for Socratic Dialogue, cont.

Questions About Viewpoints or

Perspectives

Questions that Probe Concepts

Questions that Probe Implications

and Consequences

Questions that Probe Inferences

and Interpretations

Questions About the Question

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