You doughtily heard in business and civic leaders as well as educators talk about the importance of critical thinking and found yourself asking “What is critical thinking?” and “Why is it so important?”. Suffice is to say that “critical thinking” means good thinking, almost the opposite of illogical, irrational, thinking. But if you were to test this understanding further, you begin to develop additional questions. For example, is critical thinking the same as creative thinking, are they somehow different, or is one part of the other? How do critical thinking and native intelligence or scholastic aptitude relate? Does critical thinking focus on subject matter or content that you know or on the process that is used to reason about the content?
Critical thinking is supposed to be a process so what criteria best characterizes the critical thinking process. Browne and Keeley (2000) define critical thinking as consisting of an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus the ability and willingness to ask and answer them at appropriate times. What could we use as examples of that best fit this definition. What about a patient’s questioning of her doctor about a diagnosed illness. Or what about trial la
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