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Summary of the talk given by Dr. Stephen Brookfield about Creative and Critical Thinking

            It does not matter if you throughout your live in the schooling process you haven’t been a brilliant student. you are stigmatize as a bad student just because you can’t past a pen and paper test. Test like these can’t measure what a person really know because a test is just a kind of tool that can be a double edged sword because it does not measure abilities and skills in student. we as learners can have good or bad experiences when we are taking a test. For example, sometimes students get struggle taking a test also a test can be a kind of barriers for a learner. I was what happened to Dr. Stephen Brookfield when he was in the schooling process. So, he looked for ways for understanding the world and the method in the learning and teaching process. And analyzing this the whole dimension here comes the importance of Creative & Critical Thinking and how it works. Critical thinking is the process by which we became aware of the assumptions...

Reflection of the reading about what is critical thinking

For me, the emotions that are most difficult to manage when others disagree with me are anger, frustration, resentful and desperation. I deal with these emotions when I am in a debate and sometimes the participants do not allow that I or other people put his/her two cents in the debate. For me, is much better have a debate full of ideas rather that have a debate that goes around the same idea. Owing to the fact that all the members can show their arguments and make the debate more enjoyable. For me, the influences on my own thinking That I need to be most aware of so they don’t prejudice my thinking are preconceptions, bias and beliefs. I deal with this by trying to be more spontaneous in a debate or a conversation moreover I always try to be sceptic in the debates. Because it gives me more options to participate actively. For me, the things I find most difficult about challenging the opinions of other people are looking for the appropriate words for irrupting the person that...