Critical Thinking Challenges

Critical Thinking Challenges
The importance of critical thinking has been reiterated in recent documents delineating standards and new goals for social studies education. Yet, according to author “teaching critical thinking is problematic because there are competing definitions, practices, and many barriers to its implementation.” (Wright, 2002).
The author’s negative perception in regards to the current techniques employ in teaching critical thinking leads him to believe that new standards and goals will be very difficult to meet. “This assumption is a an unstated belief about how the world was, is, or will become.” (Pearson, 2003). The author’s emotions progress rapidly towards forming his own rational decisions without putting a more structural picture into clearer focu...