Facultatea Psihologie, Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială / Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences, Sociology and Social Work

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Critical thinking in primary school pupils. A brief overview on standard and more recent perspectives
(CEP USM, 2024) Nastasia Ungureanu, Anca-Gabriela
This article is intended to discuss a topic that is essential to the development and well-being for pupils’ worldwide – critical thinking. This analysis takes into account two perspectives: the standard mechanism and more recent reinterpretations of teaching critical thinking to children. Pupils need to be taught, from a young age, different techniques in an attempt to develop their critical thinking; with the purpose of helping them filter all that, they receive through the means of electronic gadgets. Well-known researchers such as Matthew Lipman, or Jeremy Harmer have their works enriched nowadays by recent researchers such as Ellen Galinsky in a desire to enhance the quality of studies in classroom contemporaneous dynamics. It is never too late for teachers to guide pupils in acquiring not only basic abilities, such as reading or writing, but also other life skills meant to help them filter, analyze, evaluate, and decide for themselves.