STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING SUMMARY





STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING
SUMMARY

In this presentation, Dr. Brookfield explains how to challenge students to think critically and creatively. Based on the sentence: “Who we are as teachers is significantly framed by who we have been as learners”, he talks about the problems he had taking exams as a student, and how that fact allows him helping other people with the same problem.

According to Brookfield, Critical thinking prepares you to take informed actions and Creative thinking is to move outside your habitual typical mental framework. There are three kinds of Assumptions: Causal, descriptive and pragmatic. For example, an assumption is that depression is caused by external circumstances as reasoning with yourself. While the counter-viewpoint is that depression is a flaw in chemistry and we can deal with it using meditation and music.

Also, there are four intellectual traditions, natural science, critical theory, pragmatism, and the most important for Dr. Brookfield is Analytic Philosophy. For him, a student who thinks critically is good at construction and deconstruction of arguments.

Finally, he explains how critical thinking is learned by some steps: modeling, assumptions inventories, ending discussions and exercises with questions, chalk-talk using visual discussions, providing real-world illustrations and examples, speaking in tongues, etc.

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