Critical Thinking The concepts of critical thinking and perception are both gaining increasing importance in the world today. Critical thinking allows one to understand difficult concepts in a manner that is clearer and more defined. One can more readily understand those concepts if they employ critical thinking. In all portions of everyday life‚ a person is expected to make independent judgments. Those judgments are based on experience and knowledge. Without the ability to think critically‚ every
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1. WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING? Critical thinking is a process: Involves wide range of skills and attributes: Identifying other people’s positions‚ arguments and conclusions. Evaluating the evidence for alternative points of view. Weighing up opposing arguments and evidence fairly. Being able to read between the lines‚ seeing the surface and identifying false or fair assumptions. Recognising techniques eg false logic and persuasive devices Reflecting on issues in a structured way‚ bringing logic and
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LATERAL THINKING: CREATIVITY STEP BY STEP Edward De Bono Harper Collins‚ 1990 Why the total majority of great things happens in our minds when we are doing something completely different than work? In this book‚ Dr. De Bono is trying to explore this “heureka paradox” and other still relatively unknown thought processes via his lateral thinking theory. The LATERAL THINKING was introduced by the author in 1967. It was aimed to destroy the old established ways of thinking and support creativity
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Much of the thinking done in formal education emphasizes the skills of analysis--teaching students how to understand claims‚ follow or create a logical argument‚ figure out the answer‚ eliminate the incorrect paths and focus on the correct one. However‚ there is another kind of thinking‚ one that focuses on exploring ideas‚ generating possibilities‚ looking for many right answers rather than just one. Both of these kinds of thinking are vital to a successful working life‚ yet the latter one tends
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LATERAL THINKING "I DID it without thinking." When we come to reflect‚ this remark would apply to most of the actions we perform in our ordinary daily routine. Many of our actions are instinctive or automatic responses to certain situations: thus we blink if a threatening fist suddenly approaches close to the face and we step out of the way of some obstacle in our path. Many again are matters of habit—having discovered the way to act‚ either for ourselves
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SYSTEM APPROACH A system is an interrelated and interdependent set of elements functioning as a whole. It is an open system that interacts with its environment. It is composed of inputs from the environment (material or human resources)‚ transformation processes of inputs to finished goods (technological and managerial processes)‚ outputs of those finished goods into the environment (products or services)‚ and feedback (reactions from the environment). Subsystems are systems within a broader
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commonly used to attempt to persuade without argument. Concealed claim contain dubious claim to a loaded question‚ such as “When did you stop beating your wife?”. The answer may conceal the fact which called as concealed argument. Source: Critical Thinking & Information Literacy across the curriculum‚ Retrieved from: http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/lmc/ilac/Curric/kint/phil7.htm Answer (iii) In the principle of rational discussion‚ we have to assume several things such as the person who is discussing
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many definitions of leadership in organizations. Almost every author of books has one. Bass (1990)‚ after reviewing the literature‚ suggests that there are at least 12 different approaches to the definition. What is your definition of leadership? What type of leader are you? How can you be a better leader to your work team or organization? I hope you will begin to think about these questions as you embark on your leadership journey with me in this course. Essentially‚ effective leaders are those who
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„Thinking as a Hobby” by William Golding is a narrative essay. As we take a genre of the text we can assume that the author is the main character in this story and he established his own point of view. Golding in his essay divides people into three groups: grade-three thinkers‚ grade-two thinkers‚ and grade-one thinkers. He also claims that more than ninety percent of humans are representatives of first kind thinkers. The story begins when author was a young boy and he attended to grammar school
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Abstract Critical thinking includes the component skills of analyzing arguments‚ making inferences using inductive or deductive reasoning‚ judging or evaluating‚ and making decisions or solving problems when evaluating academic content. Background knowledge is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for enabling critical thought within a given subject. Critical thinking involves both cognitive skills and dispositions. These dispositions‚ which can be seen as attitudes or habits of mind‚ include
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