CRITICAL THINKING AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION TODAY
CRITICAL THINKING AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION TODAY
Author(s): Tatjana Paunović, Ljiljana Marković, Ema ŽivkovićSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education , Pedagogy
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: critical pedagogy; academic literacies/ critical literacies/ critical academic literacies; critical thinking/ reading/ writing; higher education
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the concept of critical thinking and its place in university education today, internationally as well as in the Serbian and regional Balkan contexts. As an illustration, the second part of the paper offers a review of Gordon Asher’s chapter in Writing Your Thesis: A Guide for Postgraduate Students, a coursebook which incorporates the conception of criticality in higher education, from the perspective of Critical Pedagogy. We highlight the importance of embracing a broad, epistemological understanding of critical thinking, not only as an applicable pragmatic skill, but, rather, as a way back to a more humanistic view of education as emancipation and whole-person development of individuals, for the benefit of both the individual and the society. Lastly, we discuss the importance of methodological tools in teaching for critical thinking.
Journal: FACTA UNIVERSITATIS - Linguistics and Literature
- Issue Year: 21/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 81-93
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English