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As a start. I took an exceptional class in spring 2016 by the legendary Stephen Brookfield called ‘Developing Critical Thinkers’. The four steps he described in his ‘Critical Thinking Process’ have been very helpful for me in my teaching and as an engaged citizen. Once internalized watching news. reading articles. and even conversations . . .
To this end. Brookfield proposes four lenses that can be engaged by teachers in a process of critical reflection: (1) the autobiographical. (2) the students’ eyes. (3) our colleagues’ experiences. and (4) theoretical literature.
Stephen Brookfield has brought to the world of education a wealth of literature from his research in adult learning. teaching and critical thinking. Brookfield believes teachers do what they do to “change the world” (1995. p. 1). Brookfield suggests. through their own practice. teachers model respect. democracy and justice in the hope students will learn…
Introduce a simple framework for critical thinking that students can apply themselves. Brookfield has a four-step process for gathering and analyzing assumptions. I use the three A’s (author. audience. and agenda) as a starting place for students to read historical texts. Start critical thinking with impersonal problems or questions.
Stephen Brookfield’s Four Critical Thinking Processes From: “Using Your Head to Land on Your Feet: A Beginning Nurse’s Guide to Critical Thinking” by Raingruber & Haffer. 2001. ISBN 0–8036–0606–0 The questions that follow each of the following four major critical thinking processes will help you focus your thinking about the immediate situation. Contextual Awareness and Deciding What . . .
The process of critical thinking as described by Stephen Brookfield “becoming critically reflective increase the probability that we will take informed actions” helps us as a teacher to analyse our own assumptions by examining our own experience through the four lenses.
The four lenses reflective model was developed by Stephen Brookfield as a tool for adult educators to consider a classroom situation from various points of view. These different perspectives of reflection are termed as ‘lenses’. The first one is the ‘autobiographical lens’. which as the name suggests. is for thinking about previous situations and experiences you have lived and how it . . .
Critically reflective practice is a process of inquiry involving practitioners in trying to discover. and research. the assumptions that frame how they work. Critically reflective practitioners constantly research these assumptions by seeing practice through four complementary lenses: the lens of their own autobiographies as learners of reflective practice. the lens of learners’eyes. the . . .
Stephen Brookfield SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Included in this packet are materials touching on themes I will address during my session. I will not go through these sequentially. nor will I address all of them. They are there simply for reference purposes. — — — CRITICAL THINKING AS HUNTING ASSUMPTIONS 1. Critical Thinking Process 2. Types of Assumptions 3. Learning CRITICAL THINKING PROCESS …
