The pedagogical impacts on students' development of critical thinking dispositions: Experience from Hong Kong secondary schools

The pedagogical impacts on students' development of critical thinking dispositions: Experience from Hong Kong secondary schools

• Fung, Dennis The University of Hong Kong

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 26, 128-139, 2017

Pergamon Press

2017

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FC Critical Thinking, Learning Techniques, Time
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QD Secondary Education

Critical Thinking Dispositions Development of Critical Thinking Hong Kong Secondary Schools Pedagogical Impact Teacher Participation Critical Thinking Secondary Education Students Teaching

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

A quasi-experimental research study is reported in this paper. Its aim was to evaluate the effects of different types of pedagogy on the cultivation of students' critical thinking dispositions. One hundred and forty Secondary 4 students (i.e. tenth-grade students at 15–17 years of age) from two Hong Kong schools joined a teaching intervention in which they learnt strategies of argumentation through an established critical thinking framework (i.e. Kuhn's model The Skills of Argument, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991]). Analysis revealed collaborative group work to exert positive impacts on students' development of critical thinking when used in conjunction with explicit instruction in reasoning and evidence-based justifications during the intervention. The research results also showed the students who received teacher guidance to have engaged more interactively in joint learning tasks, thereby illustrating the important role of the teacher in facilitating group discussions.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 18711871;18780423

• 10.1016/j.tsc.2017.10.005

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/157096b1

2018-06-14