Thinking Skills in Education for Effective LivingAn important goal
of education is improving our ability to think more effectively. The pages below will help you (as a learner and/or teacher) improve your skills in Creative Thinking (to generate options) & Critical Thinking (to evaluate options) and combining these (along with Ideas) into productive Problem-Solving Skills: |
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Creative Thinking
Be Creative-and-Critical Creativity in Life (Part 1) what – why – how Principles & Strategies How to Liberate Creativity Creativity in Life (Part 1) Education for Creativity Research about Creativity |
Critical
Thinking What is critical thinking? Why teach critical thinking? Critical Thinking in Schools biased Motivated Reasoning (its causes and effects) Ethics of Critical Thinking |
Problem-Solving
Skills Problems & Problem Solving Problem-Solving Skills (Creative and Critical) Education for Problem Solving (1) Our Process of Problem Solving (used in Design and Science) Education for Problem Solving (2) |
and our
website for Whole-Person Education (*) has
information in 7 areas:
Thinking Skills, Learning Skills, Effective Teaching, School Options,
The Nature of Science, Origins Questions, and Worldviews.
* developed for the American Scientific Affiliation