Developing critical thinking skills through reading
by
Dr/Margaret Van Naerssen
Summarised
by
Nasr Abou El Seoud Abd El Megid
Dr/Margaret spoke indirectly about critical thinking skills.She did not like to give definitions or elicit definitions from us.Therefore she was misunderstood by most of us.
The focus of her workshop was Mohan's model: Knowledge structure framework( shape1).The model contains two levels of thinking skills; one is low while the other is high.The low thinking skills are concrete and specific, while the high thinking skills are general and abstract.
Dr/Margaret used the green colour(ground) for the low skills, while she used the blue colour(sky) for the high skills.As we start from the concrete and move to towards the abstract.
One can follow these skills vertically or horizontally as they appear in the diagram.
Concepts principles evalution
definition& rules,
classification cause-effect
description sequence choice
(shape 1)
Dr/Margaret focused greatly on two things: giving examples and causality ( cause-effect) and sequence. She spoke about chuk chuk and described it in detail. She also spoke about a famous pot called Zeer.
She discussed words of casuality with us : becasuse, because of, as since due to and owing to. She also dealt with words of sequence: first , second ,third , then, besides, afterthat and finally.
At the of her work shop , she asked us to prepare some texts that include words of casuality and sequence.She asked us also to use posters to illustrate the texts and we did so.
1 comment:
Dear AbdelRhman,What I have done is not a repetition of what happened in the workshop. I tried to write some comments as well, but I didn't want to expand things. I thought of writing some techniques for using critical thinking , but Baerbel told us that techniques are found everywhere.We are here to practice ,not after theory.
Thanks for your comment.
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