critical thinking is an incredibly difficult and complex thing to teach. It's very difficult to see transfer across subjects and tovideting. What follows from that is its very difficulty o transferinto employment. So really the only way around that is we needa much more connected approacinned, bridging between all these different transition points.
Lauren Bellaera discusses critical thinking in theory and practice on episode 377 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When you’re teaching students, you have limited time. So all of the time you’re making particular pedagogical choices about where to focus.
-Lauren Bellaera
When teaching, we tend to like to put things in a dichotomy.
-Lauren Bellaera
Critical thinking is a really important life skill.
-Lauren Bellaera
The bridging between research and practice is very important.
-Lauren Bellaera