2011/05/03 by Tim John Moore, Tim J. Moore · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Communication in Education and Healthcare #Education and Critical Thinking Development #Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
paper · doi:10.1080/07294360.2010.501328
openalex publication_date 2011/05/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
I report a study that investigated ideas about critical thinking across three disciplines: Philosophy, History and Literary Studies. The findings point to a diversity of understandings and practices, ones that suggest the limitations of a more generic approach. I argue that a more useful conception of critical thinking is as a form of ‘metacritique’ – where the essential quality to be encouraged in students is a flexibility of thought and the ability to negotiate a range of different critical modes.