According to Paul and Elder, there are six stages of critical thinkers:
1. Unreflective thinker
2. Challenged thinker
3. Beginning thinker
4. Practicing thinker
5. Advanced thinker (Elder, 2010).
So, what is critical thinking? “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.” (Scriven, 2007). I will now summarize the six stages of critical thinkers that was presented by Paul and Elder. Starting with the first two stages. The unreflective thinker (stage 1) is egocentric, or self-centered, because they ignorant or just not aware of issues with their thinking. They tend to dismiss ideas of others simply because they do not agree. Next, the challenged thinker (stage 2) is learning to be more aware of the issues with their thinking, but they are not sure …show more content…
Well, I guess that if I really think about it, at times when I actually allow my temper to get the best of me, I pretty much instantly become an unreflective thinker. I say this because when I get angry, I basically quit thinking about everything except my anger. But that rarely happens anymore. Overall, for the majority of the time, I believe that I am still a beginning thinker. I consider myself to be at this level because, most of the time, I try to be logical, accurate, and unbiased. But then there are also times when I would consider myself as a practicing thinker (but not too often). I believe I sometimes advance to this level when I find a subject extremely interesting. I know the importance of facts and actively seek to learn what they are. And also, I actively seek to find alternate ways of looking at it to better my
1. Unreflective thinker
2. Challenged thinker
3. Beginning thinker
4. Practicing thinker
5. Advanced thinker (Elder, 2010).
So, what is critical thinking? “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.” (Scriven, 2007). I will now summarize the six stages of critical thinkers that was presented by Paul and Elder. Starting with the first two stages. The unreflective thinker (stage 1) is egocentric, or self-centered, because they ignorant or just not aware of issues with their thinking. They tend to dismiss ideas of others simply because they do not agree. Next, the challenged thinker (stage 2) is learning to be more aware of the issues with their thinking, but they are not sure …show more content…
Well, I guess that if I really think about it, at times when I actually allow my temper to get the best of me, I pretty much instantly become an unreflective thinker. I say this because when I get angry, I basically quit thinking about everything except my anger. But that rarely happens anymore. Overall, for the majority of the time, I believe that I am still a beginning thinker. I consider myself to be at this level because, most of the time, I try to be logical, accurate, and unbiased. But then there are also times when I would consider myself as a practicing thinker (but not too often). I believe I sometimes advance to this level when I find a subject extremely interesting. I know the importance of facts and actively seek to learn what they are. And also, I actively seek to find alternate ways of looking at it to better my