Fact Of Ignorance Pdf

The article that is being reviewed is The Fact of Ignorance: Revisiting the Socratic Method as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking from the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2014; 78 (7) Article 144 by Douglas R. Oyler, PharmD a,b and Frank Romanelli, PharmD, MPH and for the rest of this paper will be referred to as “the article”. In the article the authors discussed the value of critical thinking among health care professionals and re-visited the use of the Socratic method as a tool for modeling critical thinking due to increasing pressure from accrediting bodies and an evolving technical landscape, health care colleges and schools continue to place increasing emphasis on critical thinking skills rather than provision of facts and rote memorization. Numerous studies were done by the authors and found that understanding the “deep structure” to a problem is essential to critical thinking, the “deep structure” being the question within the question and not the question at face value. To provide a better understanding, an example has been adapted from the article: In a word problem using multiplication of rows and columns to count the number of vegetables in a garden, the deep structure relates to mathematics whereas the surface structure relates to farming, the latter of which is irrelevant to the problem’s solution.
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