Background of Research
Discuss about the Critical Thinking and Managerial Decision-Making for Creativity.
The article by Larrson (2017) deals with the understanding as well as the teaching of the critical approaches that might help the concerned students to achieve the major educational goal of critical thinking. The author through the article entitled “Understanding and teaching critical thinking—A new approach” tends to put forth the fact that the various research communities that have been investigating on the issue has been facing a number of serious problems in the handling of the various critical approaches that are necessary for the development of the critical thinking among the students pursuing their education at the various levels. The following essay deals with the critical analysis of the concerned article in discussion, “Understanding and teaching critical thinking—A new approach”. The essay proceeds further to put forth a critical evaluation of the article by Larrson.
The article entitled “Understanding and teaching critical thinking—A new approach” as put forth by Larrson (2017) deals with the understanding as well as the teaching of the critical approaches that might help the concerned students to achieve the major educational goal of critical thinking. The background of the concerned research deals with the fact that the various problems that are incurred by the students while dealing with the techniques that are related to the factors pertaining to the implementation of the critical thinking in the educational matters. The experts who have been dealing with the various matters that pertain to the education of the students often state that the qualities that are related to the implementation of the critical thinking among the learners of a certain course of study has remain as a major area within the pedagogy that has remained unsolved till date (Ahmad et al., 2015). The author further states that the various researches that have been conducted in this field convey that there is very little information on the matters that pertain to the critical thinking among the various learners and the ways in which the critical thinking among the students might be promoted. The author further attempts to discuss the various issues that are faced by the concerned learners as well as the researchers that pertain to the definition, measurement and the theoretical issues that are related to the critical thinking among the learners and the researchers of the various subjects. The problem that is related to the research undertaken by the author depends on the matters that are related to the various issues that pertain to the definition of the critical theories and the other theories that pertain to the involvement of the critical thinking within the various educational matters (Tiruneh, De Cock & Elen, 2017). The author of the article attempts to discuss on the reduction and the description of the various ways in the hierarchical order that are related to the understanding of the various tasks as well as the types of the critical thoughts that they might portray towards the concerned topic of discussion. The author of the concerned article tends to discuss the various critical thinking within the various learners and the researchers through the implementation of the theories that pertain to the phenomenographic learnings as well as teachings. The concerned research was conducted with the help of the surveys and the feedbacks that were provided by the students who have been pursuing their educational career in the various schools. The concerned article employed the techniques that are related to the critical understanding of the students who were asked to solve the given problems on their own without seeking help from the internet or any other sources. The major findings of the article state that the various students were dealing with the matters that deal with the phenomenographic conditions that are related to the critical thinking capabilities that are depicted by the concerned learner. The article further points out the fact that the students might need to deal with the various factors that are related to the changes in the matters that pertain to the understanding of the factors that are related to the execution of the matters relating to the matters that are related to the critical decisions that might pertain to the display of the ability to critically review on the given topic of discussion (Cheng & Wan, 2017). The article in discussion is known to have been focusing on the factors that pertain to the issues of the theory that might help in the development of the critical thinking as depicted by the students who have been dealing with the various educative subjects (Hamidu, Ibrahim & Mohammed, 2014). The article states that the phenomenography might help the concerned students with the dealings that pertain to the development of the critical thinking related to the various subjects of education within the field of study that they have been undertaking at the concerned educational institution.
Issues in the Definition, Measurement, and Theoretical Foundations of Critical Thinking
The research that has been undertaken by the concerned author has been known to have been lacking in the matters that pertain to the understanding and the enhancement of the critical thinking as should be depicted by the learners. The research that is undertaken by the author does not address the matters that pertain to the factors that are related to the development of the criticism that is displayed by the concerned student in the various matters that pertain to the development of the critical theories as depicted by the various learners who have been related to the educational factors that are undertaken by the students and the learners (McLaughlin & McGill, 2017). The article tends to lack in the dealing with the factors that might help in the promotion of the ways in which the critical thought might be implemented by the learners and the students in the study of the various subjects that they have been pursuing at the various educational institutions (Olubu, 2015). The author in the article have assumed that the critical thinking within the students might be implemented by helping them to concentrate more on the subject and disallowing them the assistance that they might receive from the various websites and other social media that might be unauthorized. The authors further assume that the phenomenographic conditions that are related to the critical thinking capabilities that are depicted by the concerned learner (Soleimanpour Omran, 2014). The article further points out the fact that the students might need to deal with the various factors that are related to the changes in the matters that pertain to the understanding of the factors that are related to the execution of the matters relating to the matters that are related to the critical decisions that might pertain to the display of the ability to critically review on the given topic of discussion (Stirling, 2017). These arguments as put forth by the author might be agreed upon as the critical thinking of the students and the researchers might depict an improvement in their critical reviews on the given article through the implementation of the phenomenography within the concerned subject of discussion. The effectiveness and the credibility of the article by Larsson (2017) might be considered to be effective for the future researchers on the similar topics. The concerned article might be effective in providing the concerned researchers with the information on the matters that pertain to the factors that are related to the development of the critical thoughts within the concerned subject of study.
Thus, from the above discussion it might safely concluded that the phenomenography might help the concerned students with the dealings that pertain to the development of the critical thinking related to the various subjects of education within the field of study that they have been undertaking at the concerned educational institution. The research that has been undertaken by the concerned author has been known to have been lacking in the matters that pertain to the understanding and the enhancement of the critical thinking as should be depicted by the learners.
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