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- Title
With a little help from my peers: professional development of higher education teachers to teach critical thinking.
- Authors
Cruz, Gonçalo; Manuel Nascimento, Maria; Dominguez, Caroline
- Abstract
Critical Thinking (CT) has become a fundamental competence of the 21st century. However, university teachers still face several difficulties in promoting it through their teaching practice, mainly due to the lack of pedagogical training aimed at this purpose. In the scope of the CRITHINKEDU Erasmus+ project, a 5-day European training course for university teachers was held in Rome (Italy) aiming to engage participants with CT teaching practices and to prepare them with the required tools suitable for its development. Some teachers from the University of Trásos-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) attended the course as trainees, and later, along with other colleagues, assumed the role of trainers during its replication in Vila Real (Portugal). Through the analysis of a focus group of eight teachers from UTAD, the current exploratory case study aims to understand teachers' conceptions on CT and characterize how those are integrated in the teaching practices. It also tries to evaluate the impact that both training courses (as trainees and/or trainers) had on their professional development. Preliminary reflections on the implementation of CT teaching practices and the design of teachers training courses in this field are discussed.
- Subjects
ROME; CAREER development; TEACHER education; CRITICAL thinking; HIGHER education; TEACHER training courses
- Publication
Revista Lusofona de Educacao, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 44, p141
- ISSN
1645-7250
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle44.09