mohammad amini; maryam saboktakin
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The growth and strengthening of students' intellectual skills has always been one of the main goals of educational systems in different countries. In the same time, the specific type and form of thinking and thinking skills, referred to as critical thinking, has always been emphasized by curriculum planners ...
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The growth and strengthening of students' intellectual skills has always been one of the main goals of educational systems in different countries. In the same time, the specific type and form of thinking and thinking skills, referred to as critical thinking, has always been emphasized by curriculum planners and theorists and experts of learning and instruction. In fact, it is assumed that the growth of students' critical thinking in a world of full of transformation and massive scientific data and information provides the necessary grounds for development of skills of evaluating, analyzing, comparing of students and rational and critical approach of them with different phenomena. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the situation and how to attention to critical thinking among female high school students in Isfahan province. In this article, to collect information the method of educational connoisseurship and criticism has been used. This method examined critical thinking in three stages of describing, interpreting and evaluating. The results and findings from this study show that due to various reasons, the amount of attention to critical thinking in the curriculum and during educational and learning activities of the school are in a low and weak level, and therefore, there is not opportunity for the development higher level thinking skills of students.
saeid mahmoodi bardezardi; eskandar fathiazar; firooz mahmoodi; Rahim badri
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The present study aims to design Educational model of questioning for Social Studies and to validate its efficiency in conceptual understanding and critical thinking of students grade six of primary school in educational year 95-96. This research is a combinational one and consists of two parts: the ...
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The present study aims to design Educational model of questioning for Social Studies and to validate its efficiency in conceptual understanding and critical thinking of students grade six of primary school in educational year 95-96. This research is a combinational one and consists of two parts: the first part is allocated to designing an appropriate model of questioning for Social Studies and the second part is related to validating the efficiency of this model in conceptual understanding and critical thinking. In qualitative section synthesis research is used to design models and in quantitative section which aims to test the efficiency of the designed model on scientific concept understanding and critical thinking of student in grade six of primary school, using and experiment we randomly chose 50 male students and divided them experimental group and control group. In order to compare critical thinking and scientific concept understanding of these two groups, Kernels test of critical thinking was used both in pre – test and post - test. The collected data were analyzed using co – variance analytical test. The results in qualitative section led to designing a model with seven dimensions (fundamentals, principals, techniques, procedures, stages, questions, objective, and evaluation). The results in quantitative section indicated that the designed model improved critical thinking and understanding concepts in experiment group.
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The main purpose of education, training should be creative and thoughtful people. Critical thinking is a new model of educational system. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the qualitative barriers to critical thinking in the curriculum of secondary education from the perspective of curriculum ...
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The main purpose of education, training should be creative and thoughtful people. Critical thinking is a new model of educational system. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the qualitative barriers to critical thinking in the curriculum of secondary education from the perspective of curriculum specialists. The trend of this qualitative research is a GT method. The sample of this study included experts who were working at high schools. We selected them through purposive sampling and finally based on data saturation we selected 18 of them. Data collection was conducted through structured interview. The results of this qualitative study showed that issues such as policies and missions of the educational system and the social, cultural, and prevailing circumstances in the field of teacher training, content, objectives and teaching method are the barriers of critical thinking.The results of this qualitative study showed that issues such as policies and missions of the educational system and the social, cultural, and prevailing circumstances in the field of teacher training, content, objectives and teaching method are the barriers of critical thinking.
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The purpose of research is study of graduate student’s experiences regarding to relation of critical thinking and curriculum. The approach of study is qualitative research approach and methodology is phenomenography. Graduate students in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of ...
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The purpose of research is study of graduate student’s experiences regarding to relation of critical thinking and curriculum. The approach of study is qualitative research approach and methodology is phenomenography. Graduate students in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Kurdistan) participated in interviews. Participants were selected using typical sampling and data collection is continued until the data reaches saturation. Semi-structured interviews are the primary source of data collection in this study. Data were analyzed using three levels of open, axial, and pattern coding. The second step was to draw the internal and external horizon and eventually results were obtained outcome space of research. The results of this research showed five descriptive categories that include: the nature of critical thinking, teaching critical thinking, character education and training of critical thinking, the results of teaching of critical thinking and the elements of critical curriculum, and how to teaching critical thinking.