Critical Thinking

Abstract

Introduction: One of the main goals of education is thinking development. Thinking about thinking for improving the thinking process is the heart of critical thinking. This paper aimed to provide different definitions of critical thinking. Methods: This review was conducted on some published articles during 1990 to 2007 in the field of critical thinking Results: Various experts have used different terminology to describe function and activities of critical thinking. While provided definitions have tried to identify the different aspects of thinking and critical thinking, its trend is obvious. It means that evaluation and analysis of content of a target subject is done through a robust review process for understanding its content Conclusion: Critical thinking is a kind of purposeful, logical and deep thinking for decision-making and problem solving.

Keywords

• critical thinking
• education