Artistic Perspective

Artistic Perspective

In recent years 'critical thinking' has become something of a 'buzz word' in educational circles. For many reasons, educators have become very interested in teaching 'thinking skills' of various kinds in contrast with teaching information and content. Of course, you can do both, but in the past the emphasis in most people's teaching has been on teaching content - history, physics, geography or whatever - and, though many teachers would claim to teach their students 'how to think', most would say that they do this indirectly or implicitly in the course of teaching the content which belongs to their ...