Teachers’ Thoughts About How Critical Thinking Is a Part of Their Classes

• Published in: Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education pp. 203 - 209
• Main Author: Dumitru, Daniela
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: Critical thinking; Critical thinking dispositions; Higher education curriculum; Humanities; STEM
• ISBN: 3030209539; 9783030209537
• ISSN: 1865-0929; 1865-0937
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_15

The project CRITHINKEDU – Critical thinking across higher education curricula, financed by the European Commission has the purpose to search good practices related to critical thinking integration into higher education curricula. The following article presents a collection of five interviews with higher education professors from Humanities and STEM, in Romania. This paper presents and compares Romanian teachers’ opinions with those found by the other partners in the project. The help that professors need is on learning materials, assessment and teacher training. Interventions should aim teacher training, but also the educational policy of the universities related to teaching quality assurance, imbedding CT into educational programs design and look for it when evaluating an educational program.