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 is talking. Also, I find difficult looking for the heart of the issue and compare my knowledge about the issue with the arguments that the other person is giving. 
  • Do you recognize anything of yourself in Bodner’s description of the students?  What effect would the approach he suggests have on your learning and understanding. I don’t recognize myself as the student that Bodner describe in his example to be unable to apply the knowledge outside the narrow domain. I think that I have learnt so much things that I can apply in other fields. I find really useful the approach because it would increase our capacity of learning and understand much better what we read and the world.

  • The barriers that I consider that might be affecting my critical thinking abilities are lack of methods, lack of practice, mistaking information for understanding. What I could do for overcome these barriers in the next few months, is put into practice the strategies that I have already read in article. If I put into practice those these strategies, I will develop critical thinking skills.


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