Critical Thinking as an Integrative Process
Debating Wolves in Yellowstone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6190875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Sargent De Jonghe (The Cobb Institute , Claremont , CA 91711 , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 374-392 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1210-3055 • E-ISSN: 1337-401X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/humaff-2023-0120 |
| OpenAlex | W4399281774 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
The topic of critical thinking has engaged philosophers, psychologists and educators for well over one hundred years. Amid polarized political attacks on the teaching of controversial issues, however, education in critical thinking appears to be nearing a new low, not only in the United States, but also in other countries being torn by partisan politics. This article reviews the ebb and flow of critical thinking efforts, suggests explanations for their discouraging results, and proposes a way forward that treats critical thinking as an integrative process advanced by Mary Parker Follet, and more recently espoused by Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway. In the exploratory spirit of John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead, I am introducing this essay, not with analysis or theory, but with a narrative of educational events in all their richness of context. These events describe how middle school students addressed the question of whether wolves should be removed from the endangered species list in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States. In the course of this discussion, I wish to demonstrate that thinking critically requires moving beyond winning, losing, or compromising to resolution of conflict, and furthermore, understanding that even stable resolutions must be revisited as events change
Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Sociology · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology
On Reasoning and Argument
How we think.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Critical Lessons
An Ethics of Refusal
In the Lap of Collective Impotentiality
Symposium Introduction
Pragmatisms' Generations
The Will to Believe in this World
“Making Education Possible Again”
Reconstructing Pragmatism in the New Climate Regime
Reassembling the Social
Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish compulsory school
On Problematic Situations and Problematizations
Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |