Against critical thinking pedagogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12713388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hayes (0000-0003-0484-4182, Bard College Berlin), Davy Hayes (0000-0001-7053-9069, Bard College Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 318-328 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474022215592248 |
| OpenAlex | W2211522664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object or student is asserting. Most importantly, critical thinking pedagogy assumes that students start out with thick beliefs and should become thinner. But in an age of default skepticism such as ours, it reinforces the vague belief that no beliefs are true and presses students toward an even thinner condition. What is needed instead is a pedagogy that thinks toward belief. This pedagogy would be marked by: (1) interpretive charity; (2) tolerance for a specific kind of exploratory bullshit; (3) the exercise of the imagination
Aesthetics · Critical thinking · Epistemology · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Pedagogy · Relation (database · Skepticism · Sociology · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Philosophy · Psychology
Against Critical Thinking in Health, Social Care and Social Work
Discourse as critical thinking
Playful approaches to learning as a realm for the humanities in the culture of higher education
Rationality, bias, and prejudice
Refusal and disowning knowledge
Using critical and post-critical pedagogies to pick at the seams of patriarchy from 'the inside
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |