Critical Thinking for Professional and Language Education

Dr. K. Venkat Reddy is a professor with almost three decades of experience in teaching English (ELT). His research focuses on critical discourse analysis and critical pedagogy.Dr. G. Suvarna Lakshmi is a Professor in the Department of ELT with over two decades of teaching experience. Her specialty is critical thinking in language pedagogy.

• Preface.- 1. Introduction to Critical Thinking Skills.- Publications: A Meta-Level Approach to the Problem of Defining ‘Critical Thinking’.- Critical thinking for 21st-century education: A cyber-tooth curriculum?.- Critical Inquiry: Considering the Context.- An exploratory study on the application of conceptual knowledge and critical thinking to technological issues.- Principles for learning and competences in the 21st-century curriculum.- Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: A Vision.- 2. Teach Critical Thinking.- Publications: Strengthening critical thinking in engineering students.- How to teach critical thinking: an experimental study with three different approaches.- Communication, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving: A Suggested Course for All High School Students in the 21st Century.- Classroom environments that foster a disposition for critical thinking.- Teaching critical thinking skills in a Hong Kong secondary school.- Explicitly Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a History Course.- Clear skies ahead: optimizing the learning environment for critical thinking from a qualitative analysis of interviews with expert teachers.- Impact of social problem-solving training on critical thinking and decision making of nursing students.- Teaching Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Science Courses.- Teachers’ Learning Communities for Developing High Order Thinking Skills—A Case Study of a School Pedagogical Change.- Teacher professional development through digital content evaluation.- Investigating University EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Critical Thinking and Its Teaching: Voices from China.- 3. Teaching Language through critical thinking strategies.- Publications: Strategies for effective faculty involvement in online activities aimed at promoting critical thinking and deep learning.- Metacognitive strategies that enhance critical thinking.- Inquiry-based science teaching in community secondary schools in Tanzania: role played by thelanguage of instruction.- Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills through Decision-Based Learning.- The language deficit: a comparison of the critical thinking skills of Asian students in first and second language contexts.- Integrating direct and inquiry-based instruction in the teaching of critical thinking: an intervention study.- Mapping the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Design Thinking.- Effects of using inquiry-based learning on EFL students’ critical thinking skills.- Constructing critical thinking in health professional education.- Exploring the Gender Perspective in English Language Teaching (ELT): Voices from ELT Practitioners in Philippine Higher Education Institutions.- 4. Tasks to Develop Critical Thinking.- Publications: Advancing Critical Thinking Through Learning Issues in Problem-Based Learning.- Acquiring Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills: An Evaluation of a Serious Game Used by Undergraduate Dental Students in Dental Public Health.- Characterizing Students’ 4C Skills Development During Problem-based Digital Making.- Computer-aided argument mapping in an EFL setting: does technology precede traditional paper and pencil approach in developing critical thinking?.- On the Plausibility of Bloom’s Higher Order Thinking Strategies on Learner Autonomy: The Paradigm Shift.- Purposely Teaching for the Promotion of Higher-order Thinking Skills: A Case of Critical Thinking.- Examining the Effects of Immersive Game-Based Learning on Student Engagement and the Development of Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking.- 5. Practicing and Assessing Critical thinking.- Publications: Mind the gap: Cognitive active learning in virtual learning environment perception of instructors and students.- An examination of Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory in second language acquisition: the role of higher order thinking enhancing techniques and the EFL learners’ use of private speech in the construction of reasoning.- Cognitive contours: recent work on cross-cultural psychology and its relevance for education.- Assessment of Critical Thinking in a First-Year Dental Curriculum.- 6. ICT for Thinking and Learning.- Publications: Strategies for fostering critical thinking dispositions in the technology classroom.- Digital storytelling: a meaningful technology-integrated approach for engaged student learning.- The effectiveness of digital storytelling in the classrooms: a comprehensive study.- Online communication and interaction in distance higher education: A framework study of good practice.- Transforming learning for the smart learning environment: lessons learned from the Intel education initiatives.- Spaces for interactive engagement or technology for differential academic participation? Google Groups for collaborative learning at a South African University.