scholarly journals A generalized definition of critical thinking

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Kovic
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Metacognitive Skill ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Logical Fallacies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Probabilistic Epistemology ◽  
Three Components

The concept of critical thinking enjoys a near-universal positive connotation. Existing defnitions of critical thinking, however, tend to be rather vague, and, as a consequence, they provide neither an accurate nor a precise understanding of critical thinking. In this paper, I propose to understand critical thinking as a metacognitive skill applicable to the evaluation of truthclaims. Critical thinking as a metacognitive skill consists of three components: Minimization of logical fallacies, minimization of cognitive biases, and a probabilistic epistemology. Understood in this manner, critical thinking can improve the quality of our inferences about the world.

scholarly journals Economic-legal aspects of business assets definition and its effectiveness analysis

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Oldřich Tvrdoň ◽  
Radmila Presová ◽  
Martin Přibyl
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Joint Stock Company ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Stock Company ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Effectiveness Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

The thesis “Economic-legal aspects of business assets definition and its effectiveness analysis” analyses the contribution of business assets in joint-stock company Svornost Těmice. The company operates in the field of agricultural primary production. Focus of plant production still keeps the traditional composition of plants grown. In connection with increasing the quality of effectiveness of the machinery the area of corn-production will be expanded. In animal production, the company specialises on the pig-feeding and milking-cows.The theoretical part includes the opinions of the world economists and managers on the definition of basic concepts related to business assets. These opinions are confronted with those of Czech authors, in order to acquaint students of the Faculty of Business and Economics with them – focusing on students of the Trade Management specialisation.The practical part is focused on analysis of effectiveness of business assets in the selected company. It have confirmed that managers of this business have to improve the intensity of exploitation of the asset base and thus to reach its higher effectiveness. This task is necessary for operation in the intensive-competition environment formed after the entrance into the European Union.

scholarly journals What is the Meaning of Critical Thinking in the Context of Globalization?

MANUSYA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-96
Author(s):  
Stephen Evans
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

A review of recent literature advocating critical thinking as a necessary response to ‘globalizationʼ, gives no clear picture of what critical thinking is. Drawing on Kant and Hermeneutics, this paper proposes a critical definition of critical thinking as an understanding of its subject-matter which questions itself, and a characterization of critical thinking as the tension of standing within the subject-matter while holding it at a distance. Considered against a backdrop of concerns about ‘globalizationʼ, critical thinking is seen, not only as an intellectual method, but also as an existential engagement of the world.

scholarly journals الثنائية اللغوية في تعليم اللغة العربية

ASALIBUNA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Qomari
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Bilingual Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Bilingualism in teaching is something to be done to make the quality of teaching more effective especially in the World Class University Like Islamic State Of University Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. This Article will be give information about implementation of Bilingulism in teaching. And also give information about the definition of bilingual and what kind of bilingual can be implemented especially in Arabic language teaching for the foreigner. Beside of information about the kind of the suitable bilingual in teaching language, This Article also inform how much of Arabic language acquisition when that language to be tought by bilingual method. And offcourse this give information about the relationship between the bilingual teaching language with the skills of language.

scholarly journals “World Class” or The Curse of Comparison?

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Practical Effect ◽  
Definition Of

Can all the universities that claim to be “world-class” actually live up to the claim? If they could be, would that be desirable public policy? It could be that there are so many different meanings of “world-class” that the term in practical effect is an oxymoron: the definition of “world” is determined locally when conceptually it should be defined internationally. This paper discusses different kinds of institutional quality, how quality is formed and how it can be measured, particularly by comparison. It also discusses the subtle but fundamental differences between quality and reputation. The paper concludes with the suggestion that world-class comparisons of research quality and productivity are possible, but that any broader application to the “world-class” quality of universities will be at best futile and at worst misleading.

scholarly journals State sovereignty index as an indicator of public decision-making

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
N. Chala ◽  
G. Kharlamova ◽  
D. Markishev
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
World Community ◽  
Similar Tendency ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Indicators ◽  
Statistical Indicators

The world community and governments are constantly on the lookout for an effective benchmark for countries: the benchmark for their success or failure, security and vulnerability, quality of life, op enness, etc. All indices are inherently objective integrators of subjectively objective indicators. The confidence in the index is based on the equilibrium of these categories. The study tried to evaluate the degree of the sovereignty of the countries, and that of Ukraine in particular, with the help of the objectivity, which can be involved by the powerful econometric apparatus. Selection, normalization, estimation of stationarity and correlation analysis gave permission to accumulate the base of more than 40 statistical indicators for the countries of the world to a generalized index and forecast the development of its dynamics for the future. The country’s sovereignty index is considered to be integral and having a scale from 0 to 100. For a more visual presentation of the results, the scale of the sovereignty index is proposed for comparable countries, with the definition of a country conditionally relatively independent of the influence and recommendations of external international organizations or entities. It turned out that, in general, all the studied countries had a similar tendency for the development of the phenomenon, which confirms the effect of globalization and synergy in the external activity of these countries. This index may turn into a future measure of the success and failure of government policy and become an instrument for choosing the direction of the country’s development.

EVALUATING THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT IN EGYPT, 1980–97

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Adams,
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
World Development

In the broadest sense, the process of development involves improving the quality of human life. Although most people support the idea of improving human lives, the concept of development is notoriously difficult to define. In the poorer countries of the world, development generally requires increasing incomes. But it also involves other things, such as raising standards of health and nutrition, improving access to education, reducing poverty, and increasing the equality of resources. How is it possible to incorporate these, and other notions, into a workable definition of development that can be used to evaluate the recent record of development in Egypt?

scholarly journals Socio-economic determinants of the ecosystem of sustainable development of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 915 (1) ◽  
pp. 012019
Author(s):  
H Lopuschnyak ◽  
N Chala ◽  
O Poplavska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economic Nature

Abstract Now the world has felt the effects of events (pandemic, digitalization, etc.), which provoked a change in the socio-economic ecosystem, which the authors propose to understand as a set of objects and subjects, and grouped according to certain interests, including on professional interests related to the definition of priorities and directions of adaptation of society and the state to the existing environment, which includes rules, laws, moral and ethical norms, and thus forms a single whole with them. Realizing the irreversibility of these events and their consequences, it becomes obvious that the transformation of national ecosystems is accelerating, especially under the influence of the ecological program. Thus, the process of adaptation to the new ecosystem of state development and ensuring its sustainability actualizes the study of determinants of socio-economic nature. The author’s research, based on his own methodology, proves that the key factors in ensuring the sustainability of this ecosystem are compliance with high standards of quality of life, maintaining partnerships and public trust in various institutions, taking into account various aspects of security (individual to collective), assessment of the present and forecasting the future.

scholarly journals The Dichotomy of the Contemplative and Active Attitude to the World in I. S. Turgenev

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-238
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav M. Golovko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
The World ◽  
Responsible Attitude ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Attitude ◽  
Scientific Reflection ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

<p>The subject of scientific reflection is the contemplation and action as ways of the human attitude to the world, existence, substantiated and accomplished in the ontology of human life by I.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;Turgenev, thinker and artist. The presence of a &ldquo;thought&rdquo; and &ldquo;will&rdquo;, consciousness and action, knowledge and transformation is considered by the writer as a fundamental characteristic of the human way of existence, which becomes the semantic core of the philosophical and anthropological concept of the article-speech &ldquo;Hamlet and Don Quixote&rdquo; (1860), fundamental for the research on Turgenev's creative work at the level of historical poetics. The activity approach to the person, strengthened at the turn of the classical and non-classical stages of development of philosophical thought,&nbsp;&mdash; the time of formation of Turgenev&rsquo;s world outlook, explains converging of the points of opposite &ldquo;native types&rdquo;, their transition from the ideal existence into the real one, their equally weighted opposition to the &ldquo;evil and lies&rdquo;. As a result, according to Turgenev's view the images of Hamlet and Don Quixote come together on the ground of &ldquo;worship to the Truth&rdquo; and the &ldquo;idea of high merits&rdquo; of the individual, in which the human &ldquo;nature&rdquo; and &ldquo;quintessence&rdquo; are objectified. Therefore, the analysis of the hamletian and don-quijotian types could be carried out by Turgenev just within the universal socio-cosmic lay of the interrelation of the opposites inherent in centripetal and centrifugal natural forces and their tendency to synthesis. The &ldquo;tragic aspect of human life&rdquo; engendered by the inaccessibility of such synthesis may be overcome by means of comprehension of the Truth, the &ldquo;true meaning of nature&rdquo;. Moreover, Turgenev&rsquo;s ontological idea of the &ldquo;Conciliation and absorbtion of everything existing in the other&rdquo;, argued at the attitudinal and aesthetic levels, is the basis for the definition of the meaning of human life. This meaning is found in the balance between the content of all human life and the world, society, other people in the name of the &ldquo;ideal&rdquo;, establishment of the truth and justice. Hence, contemplation and action as forms of a morally responsible attitude to life in Turgenev&rsquo;s artistic ontology are directly related to the problem of &ldquo;high levels&rdquo; and quality of human existence.</p>

CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING : AN EFFICIENT TECHNIQUE TO CONVERT STUDENTS INTO ACTIVE LEARNERS IN CLASSROOMS

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Madhu Gupta ◽  
Pooja Pasrija
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Mental Skills ◽  
Participatory Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Pupil Achievement ◽  
The Mind

This paper discusses the need of co-operative learning in Indian classrooms in order to promote active participation of all students in the classroom. In order to prepare the students for life and higher education, the gaining and improvement of important mental skills such as the effective usage of the mind, critical thinking, and problem solving are necessary so that they can face the challenges of life actively. In recent years, teaching has been confronted by demands for higher standards and better pupil achievement in several parts of the world. Researchers have suggested a shift from teacher-centred instruction towards more active participatory learning methods as one way to improve the quality of the learning process. The search on co-operative learning is overwhelmingly positive, and the co-operative approaches are appropriate for all curriculum areas. The present paper reflects that co-operative learning makes teaching–learning more satisfying, momentous, enjoyable and effective.

Applying Critical Thinking Skills on the World Wide Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Karen R. Juneau
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, every decade brings a renewed call for the importance of teaching critical thinking. Across the disciplines the importance of the subject is universally recognized, an interesting phenomenon since there is no common definition of critical thinking. To a scientist, critical thinking is often equated with the scientific method. To a philosopher, critical thinking implies a logical analysis of an argument and the ability to develop abstractions. To an engineer, critical thinking refers to effective problemsolving skills.

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