The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. Below, we offer overlapping definitions which together form a substantive and trans-disciplinary conception of critical thinking. Critical Thinking as Defined by the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, 1987

Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it. As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our ...

The essence of critical thinking concepts and tools distilled into a 20-page pocket-size guide. It is a critical thinking supplement to any textbook or course. It is best used in conjunction with the Analytic Thinking Guide. Keywords: critical thinking concepts; critical thinking tools; analytic thinking; thinker's guide Created Date

Critical thinking is that process, that orientation, and in the finest cases, that way of living. This guide focuses on the essence of critical thinking concepts. For teachers it provides a shared concept of critical thinking. For students it introduces critical thinking and provides strategies for developing one’s own critical thinking.

Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking.

The Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fairminded critical thinking--thinking which embodies intellectual empathy, intellectual humility, intellectual perseverance, intellectual integrity and intellectual responsibility.

Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it. As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our ...

The Common Denominators of Critical Thinking Are the Most Important By-products of the History of Critical Thinking We now recognize that critical thinking, by its very nature, requires, for example, the systematic monitoring of thought; that thinking, to be critical, must not be accepted at face value but must be analyzed and assessed for its ...

Center for Critical Thinking Linda Elder Foundation for Critical Thinking Letter to the Reader To the untutored, creative and critical thinking often seem to be opposite forms of thought — the first based on irrational or unconscious forces, the second on rational and conscious processes; the first undirectable and unteachable, the second ...

“Critical Thinking Therapy is a 'masterwork' that brings the Paul-Elder framework for fairminded critical thinking and rational therapy models together in a profoundly helpful book. Thank you, Dr. Elder.” ~Scott O. Shaffer, very thankful member of Foundation for Critical Thinking Study Group