Critical Thinking in the Structure of Educational Programs in Russian Universities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210527.008How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical thinking, Skepticism, Reflective thinking, Educational standards, Educational programs, Manipulation of consciousness, Information space, Logic, Argumentation

Abstract

The article examines the formation of the main approaches to the definition of the concept of “critical thinking”, the most important components of critical thinking and the relationship between manipulation of consciousness and critical thinking. The work also studies the formation of critical thinking among students of Russian universities and the development of educational programs in the discipline “Critical Thinking”. As the main conclusion, the idea is substantiated that a training course on critical thinking should include the sections, elements of cognitive science, formal logic, the theory of argumentation and a set of information about the methods of manipulating the consciousness of information consumers in the modern information space.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vitaly Yu. Ivlev
AU  - Maxim V. Pozdnyakov
AU  - Vladimir A. Inozemtsev
AU  - Alexey Z. Chernyak
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/01
TI  - Critical Thinking in the Structure of Educational Programs in Russian Universities
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education: Current Issues and Digital Technologies (ICECIDT 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 121
EP  - 128
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210527.008
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210527.008
ID  - Ivlev2021
ER  -