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assess_chap_5_edited.pptxChapter 5: The First Four Stages of Development
Dana AlShehri ID: 201500409
Najla AlMubarak ID: 201500004
Outline
Introduction
Stage 1: The Unreflective Thinker
Stage 2: The Challenged Thinker
Stage 3: The Beginning Thinker
Stage 4: The Practicing Thinker
Conclusion
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
Introduction
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
Ask yourself: What is critical thinking? How is it useful or not useful in my life and why? Am I a critical thinker? How is critical thinking related to reflective thinking?
Such questions depend on whether an individual take their thinking for granted and how one perceives oneself based on their thinking.
Critical thinking is defined to be ‘the use of cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome that is of purpose and goal directed’.
Reflective thinking is a component of the critical thinking process referring specifically to the processes of analyzing and making judgments about what has happened. (Halpern, 1996)
Studies have shown that the people often daydream or wander off due to the fact that the human mind is composed of continuous stream of words. (Elder & Paul, 2010)
Thinking’s major relation to one’s life life includes the fact that a person who’s labeled as a critical thinker, is one who is in control of their fate.
There are four stages of development that leads an individual towards acquiring the highest quality of skills of becoming a critical reflective thinker.
Stage 1: Are You an Unreflective Thinker?
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
All humans are born as ‘unreflective thinkers’; unaware of how thinking shapes an individual life.
Unreflective thinkers tend to lack the high quality of skills and knowledge that would allow them to improve as critical thinkers.
Habits of unreflective thinkers include unconsciously making assumptions or drawing conclusions without having the intellectual standards that would lead to logical reasoning.
These thinkers are usually self deceived and egocentric; they view their thinking or conclusions as logical regardless of the evidence that claims otherwise.
Unreflective thinkers are not only unaware of the problems their thinking can cause, but are also unaware of the skills they lack in order to improve their thinking. Hence, they tend to appear as confident, illogical, and arrogant.
If one sees themselves belonging to this stage and value the importance of changes in their thinking, then they are ready to move to the next stage towards improving their thinking. Otherwise, one will not benefit in any way.
Stage 2: Are You a Challenged Thinker?
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
The fundamental intellectual trait at this stage is intellectual humility, in order to see that problems are inherent in one’s thinking.
Intellectual humility is an essential trait of a challenged thinker; in which one can become alert if their thinking habits that could cause problems such as the tendency to think egocentrically, or make faulty concepts.
A challenged thinker is aware of the consequences of poor thinking based on any situation at hand.
Often people at this stage fall to the previous stage due to their inability to be conscious of self-deception.
Self-deception can stop the challenged thinker from putting effort into changing their way of thinking.
Challenged thinkers develop limited understanding of the role of self-deception in thinking; at this stage the thinker develops some reflective awareness of how thinking operates for good or ill.
A challenged thinker should set goals of achieving thinking that is sound; of proper analysis and reflection of one’s own thinking.
Activity:
Question: Explain a time of your life where you identified specific flaws in your thinking through self-reflection and how you responded or approached these flaws.
Taking the challenge, growing and developing as a thinker. Is called the stage of “beginning thinker”.
Taking thinking seriously.
For developing our thinking we must:
Analyze
Express
Check information
Distinguish
Recognize
Identify
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
Stage 3: Are You a beginning Thinker?
What Forces Have Shaped Your Thinking?
The culture you were born in.
The decade/time you were born in.
The place you were born in.
You were raised by parents; they have their own beliefs.
The Influences on Your Thinking
Vocational
Sociological
Philosophical
Ethical
Intellectual
Anthropological
Ideological
Economic, historical, biological, theological, psychological and physiological.
Setting a plan for improvement.
Use wasted time.
Handle a problem.
Keep an intellectual journal.
Practice intellectual strategies.
Deal with your ego.
Redefine the way you seen things.
Get in touch with your emotions.
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
Stage 4: Are You a Practicing Thinker?
Activity: Discussion Questions
What are your personal goals for yourself in the area of critical thinking? Be specific.
| Strategies towards developing as a critical thinker (Paul & Elder, 2001):- 1. Use “Wasted” Time. 2. A Problem A Day. 3. Internalize Intellectual Standard; clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, depth, logicalness, significances; 4. Reshape Your Character; intellectual perseverance, autonomy, empathy, courage, humility. 5. Deal with Your Ego. 6. Redefine the Way You See Things. 7. Get in touch with your emotions. 8. Analyze group influences on your life. |
Conclusion
Stage 1:
Unreflective thinkers are unaware of the problems their thinking can cause and the skills they lack in order to improve their thinking.
They tend to show themselves confident, illogical, and arrogant.
Stage 2:
A challenged thinker is aware of the consequences of poor thinking based on any situation at hand, set goals of achieving professional thinking, they develop limited understanding of the role of self-deception in thinking.
Stage 3:
How to be a beginning thinker.
Forces shaped your thinking.
Influences on your thinking.
Stage 4:
How to practice your thinking.
Stages of Development
Unreflective Thinker
Challenged Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Accomplished Thinker
References
Elder, L., & Paul, R. (2010). Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory. Retrieved March 5, 2017, from http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-development-a-stage-theory/483
Halpern, D. F. (1996). Thought and knowledge: an introduction to critical thinking (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.
Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2001). Critical thinking in everyday life: 9 strategies. Retrieved March 5, 2017, from https:// www.criticalthinking.org/resources/articles/sts-ct-everyday-life.shtml
