Critical Thinking Readings

I'm always concerned about narrow and superficial conceptions about critical thinking (CT). Here is a selection of readings on CT which offer a bit of clarification on its meaning, the debates, and so on.

SOME ISSUES IN THE CRITICAL THINKING DEBATE: DEAD HORSES AND RED HERRINGS, ANYONE? this is (while a bit older 1998) a really interesting piece on the "controversies" of definidng CT from the journal "Educational Theory" (which is a very prestigious one) http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/122830

Critical Thinking, Autonomy & practical reason (2004) - really good one which I think will relate to your work - specifically critiques Siegel, and; also in Ed Theory http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/122836

Is Critical Thinking Biased? (this is actually a series of articles in an issue of Ed Theory and it really gets into whether the "dispositions" are problematic or not) http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/122837

Conceptualizing critical thinking - bailin and others - http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/ctl/__shared/assets/ct-conceptualize597.pdf

Siegel on centrality of character to CT http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/viewFile/2484/1926 - this is along the issues of bias and stuff.

Critical thinking & critical pedagogy (differences etc.) http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/papers/critical.html - kind of interesting and this fellow Burbules is a critical pedagogue - you might find the contrast enlightening, esp what he thinks CT is not. This of course, is controversial.

Bailin's Critical and Creative thinking - this is important, since there are differences. This journals is a pretty prestigious philosophy journal that has a lot on CT http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/viewFile/2656/2097

Bailin's response to Emery Hyslop-Margison's critiques of the failings of CT http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/2003/bailin.pdf - and the original Hylsop-Margison is here http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/pes/article/viewFile/1753/470 - these are important because this offers you the alternate perspective of "against CT"

Education for CT: Can it be non-indoctrinative? http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/122840

Noddings - war, critical thinking and undrestanding - not unlike the Siegel one we read for our course http://education.uncc.edu/theafner/Advanced%20SS%20methods/War%20and%20Critical%20Thinking.pdf