Title: Chapter 17. Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions | Section 2. Thinking Critically | Main Section | Community Tool Box
Headings: Section 2. Thinking Critically
Section 2. Thinking Critically
What is critical thinking?
Why is critical thinking important?
Who can (and should) learn to think critically?
How do you help people learn to think critically?
What is critical thinking?
Elements of critical thinking
Goals of critical thinking
Why is critical thinking important?
Who can (and should) learn to think critically?
How do you help people learn to think critically?
How to be a critical thinking facilitator
How to encourage the critical stance
Facilitating problem solving using critical thinking
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Content: What effect did it have? Perhaps even more important, who will benefit if these ideas are accepted? Who will lose? What will the result be if things are changed in the direction this politician suggests? Are those results good for the country? If you ask the kinds of questions suggested here when you see new information, or consider a situation or a problem or an issue, you're using critical thinking. Critical thinking is tremendously important in health, human service, and community work because it allows you to understand the actual issues involved, and to come up with an approach that is likely to address them effectively. What is critical thinking? There are many definitions of critical thinking. Some see it as a particular way of handling information.