Barrier in critical thinking by mubashir imtiaz
- 2. TOPIC: BARRIER TO CRITICAL THINKING Mubashir Imtiaz
- 3. WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING? • Simple thinking does not mean that you are a critical thinker. • Critical thinking is that mode of thinking, about any subject, content, or problem in which a thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by taking skillfully charge of his or her structures inherit in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them.
- 4. MAJOR BARRIER OF CT ARE: • Egocentrism • Sociocentrism • Wishful thinking • Drone mentality • Schedule pressures • Biased nature and experiences • Work pressure • Fear • Laziness
- 5. EGOCENTRISM • It is in ability to differentiate between self an other. • It is an in ability to accurately assume or understand any perspective other than ones own. These peoples are selfish, self-absorbed who view their interests, values and ideas superior to others. • This type of behavior is less prominent in adulthood but soon it becomes.
- 6. SOCIOCENTRISM • Sociocentrism is a group involved thinking. • It is a tendency to assume the superiority or righteousness of one’s own group. • In this peoples are narrow-minded and they are convinced they are in possession of truth that they are right.
- 7. WISHFUL THINKING • Wishful thinking is basically day-dreaming. • I understand it in two ways . Like in first side it could be a positive effect by identifying things to be improved. • Now on the other hand it could be a barrier if it is like dreaming bout something in a way that we are entertaining our feeling but not thinking proactively and practically about it.
- 8. DRONE MENTALITY • If you have a drone mentality this may pay attention to what is gong on around you. • This mentality is dangerous in classroom because learners forget to how to deal with the new circustances.it also causes them to shy away from challenges for the sake of ease. • Teacher should avoid the temptation of slipping into patterns that can lead to a drone mentality effect in the classroom. By constantly finding new things and connections to new things and fields the teaching method may remain fresh and interesting.
- 9. SCHEDULE PRESSURES • Time constraints often serve as a barrier to integrating learning opportunities that support critical thinking skills. • Due to training, practice and patience teachers can learn various strategies that make them naturally model thinking behaviors in the classroom that improve learners critical thinking skills. • It is especially that teachers do their best to create a learning schedule that is not burdened by time constraints.
- 10. BIASED NATURE AND EXPERIENCES • Having a personal bias is one of the biggest barriers to Critical Thinking as it curbs and prohibits a person from making decisions that are fair, open minded and transparent. • It also prevents the person to use logical reasoning, experience and the basic common sense to make decisions that are informed and valid.
- 11. WORK PRESSURE • Quite many numbers of times at our work place. • We are overloaded with the deadlines and it does effect our skill of critical thinking. • But the silver lining is that a person can also sharpen his critical learning skills and abilities amidst the tough and tight deadlines. • As we know when the time is short and aa deadline needs to be met we often go for a option in completing the work without any strategic thinking and long term vision and here barrier arises in the critical thinking.
- 12. FEAR • Fear can act as a barrier not only in critical thinking but also for the overall growth and development of a person. • Fear makes him unconfident, demotivated and not very agile to think outside the box and come up with the ideas and strategies. • Fear can arouse out of the various reasons such as anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues and others such personal reasons affecting a person’s professional life as well.
- 13. LAZINESS • Critical thinking requires a person to do a lot of research, study literature that is work related and be open to learning new things for growth and development. But when a person is lazy it acts as one of the barrier to Critical Thinking.