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Developing thinking and learning
This seminar will focus on:
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What is the purpose of
education?
Education …
‘has for its purpose not the imparting
of particular knowledge but the
strengthening of mental faculties’
(Kant)
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What are thinking skills?
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit’ (Aristotle)
• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analysing and evaluating
• Creating
(SQA)
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Dimensions of thinking
These dimensions of thinking at literal,
strategic, and conceptual levels :
• information processing
• critical thinking
• creative thinking
• comparative (evaluative) thinking
through self-reflection, dialogue and writing,
characterise research.
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What is higher order thinking?
• Intellectually challenging, requires effort
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Teachers and students as researchers