ERIC Number: EJ1353542
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0729-4360
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Enhancing Students' Critical Thinking Skills through Engagement with Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Global South
Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso; Igwe, Paul Agu; Mong, Ifeanyi Kalu; Nwosu, Hyginus Emeka; Kanu, Clementina; Ojemuyide, Chidiebere C.
Higher Education Research and Development, v41 n4 p1184-1198 2022
This study shows how HE teachers (particularly, business management and vocational studies) experience the teaching of critical thinking to foster student development of critical thinking skills (CTS) while working across diverse international contexts. Using a qualitative online survey and interview methodologies, we obtained rich information from 55 participants from 26 countries in the Global South including HE teachers who incorporate CTS into their teaching practices and those who had studied and briefly taught in developed countries' universities where CT is embedded into the HE learning with an understanding of the subject under study. Focusing on three dominant themes from the thematic analysis, we analyze three key approaches that HE teachers can adopt to enhance students' development of CTS which include: teaching strategies, active learning, setting problem or inquiry. Also, we discuss the perceived challenges that HE teachers may experience in the course of promoting teaching for CTS.
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Management Development, Developing Nations, Teacher Surveys, Inquiry, Problem Solving, Barriers, Cross Cultural Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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