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Critical Thinking
Part of the series Boost Your Teaching, from the Teachers TV video archive.
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Summary
Roy van den Brink-Budgen, a former chief examiner for critical thinking, explains some of the concepts involved in helping your pupils developing critical thinking skills.
Learning how to analyse, evaluate and produce arguments can help pupils become enquiring thinkers, and skills can be developed across subjects and key stages.
Whatever the subject, critical thinking encourages students to take claims and ask questions about them, whether they are made in conversations, in the classroom, or in the media.
Related links (4)
If Then
Wesite for Roy van den Brink-Budgen's company, which offers critical thinking services
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Gray's Inn is home to the statue of Sir Francis Bacon, featured in the video. Sir Francis Bacon - who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England - worked there in the 1580s
BBC History: Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon, who was one of the pioneers of Critical Thinking. His work introduced the idea of scientific inquiry, which encouraged a planned procedure of investigating things through inductive reasoning
The Works of Sir Francis Bacon
A website detailing the works of Sir Francis Bacon
- Duration: 8 mins
- No Subtitles
- Published: 26 March 2010