Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2023
Author(s): Stephen Merry Visiting Research Fellow, Staffordshire University
For at least 60 years it has been recognised that students perform better ifthey take a more critical approach to their studies (Flecker, 1959), and, morerecently, critical thinking has become ‘a defining characteristic of universityeducation’ (Ahern et al., 2012, 125). In essence, this book is a clarion call forits readers to spend more time challenging and expanding their own viewsrather than always believing what they hear, read or see, and only seekingconfirmation of their existing beliefs. For me, critical thinking seems to be abroader version of scientific thinking whereby laboratory experiments aredeliberately designed to disprove pre-existing hypotheses; other academicdisciplines may also have their own terminology.
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