Applying Critical Thinking Skills to Character Education and Values Clarification With Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

• Published in: American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) Vol. 149; no. 3; pp. 255 - 263
• Main Authors: Easterbrooks, Susan R., Scheetz, Nanci A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Gallaudet University Press 01.07.2004
• Subjects: Behavioral Objectives; Character; Character education; Cognition; Cooperative Learning; Critical Thinking; Deaf education; Deafness; Education; Education of Hearing Disabled; Educational Strategies; Ethical Instruction; FEATURE ARTICLES; Hard of Hearing; Hearing disorders; Hearing Impairments; Hearing loss; Humans; Learning; Lesson Plans; Logical Thinking; Moral Development; Moral education; Morality; Morals; Partial Hearing; Personality traits; Persons With Hearing Impairments - psychology; Reasoning; Secondary School Students; Social Values; Special Needs Students; Teachers; Thinking; Thinking Skills; Values; Values Clarification; Values Education; United States > US
• ISSN: 0002-726X; 1543-0375; 1543-0375
• DOI: 10.1353/aad.2004.0024

STUDENTS WHO ARE DEAF or hard of hearing must learn to think critically.Character education(CE) refers to the effort to teach basic values and moral reasoning (Doyle & Ponder, 1977).Values clarification(VC) is the process of examining one’s basic values and moral reasoning (Rokeach, 1973). Character education and values clarification as subject matter foster the development ofcritical thinking(CT), a tool used both to develop and to modify values and moral reasoning. These three areas mutually support one another. The development of a set of values and their underlying moral reasoning is the foundation for thinking critically about values. The authors examine the components of critical thinking, character education, and values clarification, summarize the literature, and provide a template for appropriate lesson plans. They also describe strategies that promote the development of critical thinking, character education, and values clarification.