Critical thinking in undergraduate humanities education: co-creating intended learning outcomes, host: Merel van Goch, Onderwijsparade 2021 , @Krowden

Critical thinking in undergraduate humanities education: co-creating intended learning outcomes

This project concerns the ability to think critically as an intended learning outcome in the context of undergraduate education in the humanities. Critical thinking is a complex construct consisting of knowledges, skills and attitudes. It is defined as: “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.” (Facione, 1990; Abrami et al., 2015). Critical thinking is operationalized in different teaching and learning practices: e.g., (teaching) problem analysis, writing literature reviews, debating. The Faculty of Humanities houses a diverse range of (under)graduate programmes covering fields such as languages, cultures, history and philosophy. We understand the nature of humanities as a position within Biglan's classification (1973). In this, the humanities are described as a non-applied and soft discipline t

04-03-2021 12:10 - 12:30

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