1. Being Critical (Page: 213)
Critical thinking is a way of thinking that does not need any form of education to do so. Critical thinking includes theory, reflection, and action based on the first two. Critical theory gives us a foundation for our critical thinking. It is our beliefs and values that our thoughts stem from. When we reflect we are taking our thoughts and beliefs and critiquing them in order to make them remain the same or change them based on when we know and what we have learned. Once we have critiqued our thoughts, beliefs, values, and opinions we take action upon them. Taking action is something we do to justify our beliefs and consider who is being affected by them. On a daily an individual is thinking critically whether …show more content…
This thought process is needed in everyday life to reflect on assumptions and beliefs. This thought process allows you to analyze your mind and challenge your way of thinking. Critical thinking can be used to change, correct, or obtain a reasonable way of thinking. You are able to view things from different points of views and connect socially different. Critical thinking is needed everyday in order to make the best decisions for different aspects of your life. The decisions can be which job offer you will accept or what would be the best lunch for your body. One of the most important ideas of critical thinking is having the ability to take your experiences and thoughts to connect them socially. From experience I can support the statement that critical thinking is used every day in everyones life. It is something that we all do unconsciously. One place I feel as if I do most of my critical thinking is at school. Based on what I am learning allows me to reflect on my thoughts and challenge them by the thoughts of the others around me. Furthermore, I try to remain openminded to what I don 't agree upon or ideas that are new to …show more content…
What we have learned and understood in previous situations is often applied in our new situations. The text explains it as, what we learn now is connect to the past and the past is applied to the future. Most learning is done informally and accidental for adult learners. Our experiences can be looked at as a resource for us to reference to. On the contrary, learning based on experience can also impact our learning negatively due to our biases, assumptions, and ways of thinking. Based on these thoughts we can be close minded and not open to new ideas. Experience learning also ties into self directed learning and transformative learning. Self directed learning is taking control of your own learning and how you want to learn. Transformation learning is tied into experience learning because it is the process of learning which you question our thoughts and experiences. An example of experience learning for me would be makeup. Doing makeup is one of my hobbies, with doing makeup I try to stay up to date with techniques and products. However, when there is a new technique I am taking my past experiences with other techniques and applying them to the new ones. I often compare them and figure out how to do
Critical thinking is a way of thinking that does not need any form of education to do so. Critical thinking includes theory, reflection, and action based on the first two. Critical theory gives us a foundation for our critical thinking. It is our beliefs and values that our thoughts stem from. When we reflect we are taking our thoughts and beliefs and critiquing them in order to make them remain the same or change them based on when we know and what we have learned. Once we have critiqued our thoughts, beliefs, values, and opinions we take action upon them. Taking action is something we do to justify our beliefs and consider who is being affected by them. On a daily an individual is thinking critically whether …show more content…
This thought process is needed in everyday life to reflect on assumptions and beliefs. This thought process allows you to analyze your mind and challenge your way of thinking. Critical thinking can be used to change, correct, or obtain a reasonable way of thinking. You are able to view things from different points of views and connect socially different. Critical thinking is needed everyday in order to make the best decisions for different aspects of your life. The decisions can be which job offer you will accept or what would be the best lunch for your body. One of the most important ideas of critical thinking is having the ability to take your experiences and thoughts to connect them socially. From experience I can support the statement that critical thinking is used every day in everyones life. It is something that we all do unconsciously. One place I feel as if I do most of my critical thinking is at school. Based on what I am learning allows me to reflect on my thoughts and challenge them by the thoughts of the others around me. Furthermore, I try to remain openminded to what I don 't agree upon or ideas that are new to …show more content…
What we have learned and understood in previous situations is often applied in our new situations. The text explains it as, what we learn now is connect to the past and the past is applied to the future. Most learning is done informally and accidental for adult learners. Our experiences can be looked at as a resource for us to reference to. On the contrary, learning based on experience can also impact our learning negatively due to our biases, assumptions, and ways of thinking. Based on these thoughts we can be close minded and not open to new ideas. Experience learning also ties into self directed learning and transformative learning. Self directed learning is taking control of your own learning and how you want to learn. Transformation learning is tied into experience learning because it is the process of learning which you question our thoughts and experiences. An example of experience learning for me would be makeup. Doing makeup is one of my hobbies, with doing makeup I try to stay up to date with techniques and products. However, when there is a new technique I am taking my past experiences with other techniques and applying them to the new ones. I often compare them and figure out how to do