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- Title
The Elements of Critical Thinking in Bektashi Anecdotes.
- Authors
Aksoy, Erol
- Abstract
In recent years, many of the critics made on our education system focus on the students' inability to come up with original ideas, the fact that they only memorize the information they want to be taught as it is, inability to make inferences from the information they have obtained, and inability to express themselves comfortably in front of a community. At this point, it is important for students to learn and develop their metacognitive thinking skills. It has been concluded by the studies conducted on the critical thinking skill among these skills that individuals who can think critically have high self-confidence and have courage to express their thoughts, can come up with extraordinary and original ideas, can make connections between information, produce alternative views with this information, offer solutions and show intellectual development. It is seen that these results mostly are in line with the results of the studies on humour genre's critical thinking aspect. In these studies, it is noteworthy that the researchers agreed that the most important features of the anecdote are that it is funny and that it makes people think about the main event and conflict it tells. These cases point to important premise parts about the use of humour in teaching critical thinking skills. In this sense in this study, in order to raise the type of student expected from our education system, answers were sought to the questions of whether the anecdotes told depending on the Bektashi type have an effect on critical thinking skills and whether these anecdotes can be used in teaching students critical thinking skills; it has been concluded in the aforementioned anecdotes that Bektashi anecdotes will contribute to the acquisition of this skill by the students, since Bektashi's unique, free and original thought examples, inquiring perspective, problem-solving skills, self-confidence in expressing feelings and thoughts, and critical thinker characteristics.
- Subjects
CRITICAL thinking; SELF-confidence; ANECDOTES; CRITICAL thinking studies; INTELLECTUAL development; FREE thought
- Publication
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
1305-5143
- Publication type
Article