Led by our coordinators from UTAD (Portugal), our fifth intellectual output – “the Studies in Higher Education Special Issue” – is now available at http://crithinkedu.utad.pt/en/intellectual-outputs/.
The reflection we share in this Special Issue presents different contributions to the state of the art on empirical research regarding the current pedagogical practices in higher education that foster critical thinking (in several knowledge and professional domains). It draws on the work already accomplished towards the elaboration of an educational protocol to promote critical thinking in European higher education institutions, the CRITHINKEDU project’s fourth output.
Given the importance of critical thinking in higher education and its particularities in different fields and contexts, this Special Issue is constituted of eight papers covering not only the perspective of professionals from different fields regarding critical thinking, but a series of literature reviews on critical thinking educational practices in different disciplines. It concludes with an example of an educational approach used to tackle complex issues in which values are at stake. The first section of the Special Issue includes five scientific articles whereas the second one offers three enlightening ‘research essays’ on complex ongoing research interests.
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