mohammad amini; maryam saboktakin
Abstract
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.