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- Comprehension view about critical thinking: narrative reviewPublication . Buzduga, Andreea; Rodrigues, LilianaThe critical thinking literature emphasizes the continuous need of understanding the meaning of a complex concept as critical thinking. Previous research provides multiple theoretical approaches on critical thinking, including different theoretical and operational definition, methods for developing critical thinking and measurements tools within formal educations. In this study, we focus on reviewing the main insights from previous studies with the specific aim of proposing a structured overview of how critical thinking can be defined, developed and measured according to multiple approaches (i.e., philosophical, psychological, educational). Results of this study showed the development of the critical thinking concept, consisting of a broad perspective of multiple approaches of critical thinking. This further enables an overview of critical thinking particularities.
- On developing critical thinking: a narrative overviewPublication . Buzduga, Andreea; Rodrigues, LilianaThis study provides an overview on the contextual factors, educational practices and teaching methods that develop critical thinking on students. To provide this overview, we synthesized the meta-analysis and reviews of studies published be tween 1940 and 2017. For outlining the contextual factors, we present the three lev els that promote or inhibit critical thinking: (1) institutional level, (2) teaching level, and (3) course level. We further synthesized the literature on educational practices that develop critical thinking and outline the teaching methods from three catego ries: (1) oral (e.g., debate, dialogues etc.), (2) written (e.g., debate, dialogues etc.), and (3) applied (e.g., experiential learning, problem solving etc.). This literature review study provides theoretical implications for the literature on critical thinking. These implications consist of an overview of the contextual factors, educational practices and teaching methods that develop critical thinking.