The Effectiveness of Critical Thinking in Higher Education
The Effectiveness of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to explore the role of the university as an educational institution to encourage young people to express critical thinking. Critical thinking should beco-me part of the teaching process so that students engage more in analyzing social problems that exist in society. Often, we see young people in audiences who discuss, interpret different social problems and do so based on personal judgment or perso-nal experience and not on the basis of facts or arguments. At this point, there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills as a necessity to understand and identify phenomena occurring in social reality. The focus of the paper is on the question: How much does the European University of Tirana enable the student to think critically? What are some of the basic skills you need to teach students to de-velop critical thinking and how much is critical thinking part of the curriculum? What are some skills that one needs to teach students for developing critical thin-king and how much is the space of expressing critical thinking part of the curricu-lum? If critical thinking were to become more integrated in the teaching process, this would help students engage more in understanding knowledge, identifying social problems, and problem-solving abilities. The document focuses on the univer-sity as the main institution that should foster the power of critical thinking in stu-dents.

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