TEACHING TEENAGERS TO USE CRITICAL THINKING
In The Times newspaper of 25 January 2025, the social scientist and researcher, Matilda Gosling (author of ‘Teenagers: The Evidence Base’), stressed the value of
January 28, 2025
In the ‘Financial Times’ of 23 May, there was an interview with Harlan Coben (author of 32 novels, including the Myron Bolitar series and whose novel ‘The Stranger’ has been turned into a TV series for Netflix). In the interview he explains that he went to Amherst College in Massachusetts where ‘they taught critical thinking and writing, so that’s where I started to develop my craft’. This link between fiction writing and critical thinking highlights the central place of creativity within critical thinking.
In The Times newspaper of 25 January 2025, the social scientist and researcher, Matilda Gosling (author of ‘Teenagers: The Evidence Base’), stressed the value of
A recent study in The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy on using fairy stories in primary schools has highlighted that such stories can be