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Critical thinking |
Non-critical thinking
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| View
of knowledge: |
- shades of gray - strives for depth
- interdisciplinary
- knowledge is open
- intertwined with thinking
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- black and white - superficial level
- unidisciplinary
- knowledge is closed
- independent of thinking
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| View
of thinking: |
- rational and consistent
- strives to learn how to think
- holistic/webbed
- original/insightful
- multiple frames of reference
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- irrational and inconsistent
- strives to learn what to think
- unidisciplinary/linear
- second hand thinking
- one or limited frame of reference
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| Strategies
for thinking: |
- suspends closure
- explorer/probing
- questioning
- fair-minded
- active
- collaborative/communal
- precise language
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- strives for closure
- dogmatic/avoiding
- doubting
- ego-/ethnocentric/emotional
- passive
- authoritative
- vague language
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Key
Concepts