The Critical Thinking Teaching Methods In （批判性思维的教学方法）.pdf

International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 24 [Special Issue – December 2011] The Critical Thinking Teaching Methods In Nursing Students Belgin YILDIRIM PhD RN, Assistant Professor Aydın School of Health Adnan Menderes University Aydın, Turkey Şükran ÖZKAHRAMAN PhD RN, Assistant Professor Faculty of Health Science Süleyman Demirel University Isparta, Turkey Seher Sarıkaya Karabudak PhD RN, Assistant Professor Aydın School of Health Adnan Menderes University Aydın, Turkey Abstract Critical thinking “thinking explicitly aimed at well-founded judgment, utilizing appropriate eval uative standards in an attempt to determine the true worth, merit, or value of something”. “Education knits together critical thinking …with the fabric of students’ experiences as a synthesizing process, providing students with the tools they will need to make sense of their world and the choices available to them and the insight they will need to make those choices wisely”. The educational process seeks to produce growth in cognivite development, but it is not the only way to achieve growth. Learning and thinking are processes that, if