ABSTRACT

This study shows how HE teachers (particularly, business management and vocational studies) experience the teaching of critical thinking to foster student development of critical thinking skills (CTS) while working across diverse international contexts. Using a qualitative online survey and interview methodologies, we obtained rich information from 55 participants from 26 countries in the Global South including HE teachers who incorporate CTS into their teaching practices and those who had studied and briefly taught in developed countries’ universities where CT is embedded into the HE learning with an understanding of the subject under study. Focusing on three dominant themes from the thematic analysis, we analyze three key approaches that HE teachers can adopt to enhance students’ development of CTS which include: teaching strategies, active learning, setting problem or inquiry. Also, we discuss the perceived challenges that HE teachers may experience in the course of promoting teaching for CTS.

摘要

本研究展示了高等教育教师（尤其是商业管理和职业研究）如何体验批判性思维教学，以促进学生在不同国际环境中工作时培养批判性思维技能 (CTS)。使用定性在线调查和访谈方法，我们从来自全球南方 26 个国家的 55 名参与者那里获得了丰富的信息，其中包括将 CTS 纳入其教学实践的 HE 教师，以及在嵌入 CT 的发达国家大学学习和短期任教的教师了解所研究的主题后进入 HE 学习。围绕主题分析中的三个主要主题，我们分析了高等教育教师可以采取的促进学生 CTS 发展的三个关键方法，包括：教学策略，主动学习、设置问题或探究。此外，我们还讨论了高等教育教师在促进 CTS 教学的过程中可能遇到的挑战。