Imagine yourself in a labyrinth, vast – endless for all you know. You wander the corridors, stumbling upon a closed door. You could invest some effort into unlocking it to find out what’s inside.

Creative and critical thinking often get ‘lumped together’ as buzzwords within the realm of educational outcomes and, as a result, people often try to draw links between the two. While they may share ...

The Making Critical Thinking Visible webpage is a repository of activities, assignments, and other curricular elements UW instructors have created to make critical and creative thinking more visible ...

As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the emphasis in higher learning is less on in-depth discipline knowledge and more on agile skills in critical thinking and creative thinking. How can we ...

Most courses at UW, from USP to disciplinary, undergraduate to graduate, include learning outcomes focused on critical and creative thinking. Yet these skills and characteristics can vary ...

NAPLAN testing starts this week. With calls for a review, many education experts are calling the Future of NAPLAN into question. In this series, the experts look at options for removing, replacing, ...

Critical thinking is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to objectively analyze, evaluate and interpret information to make informed decisions and solve complex problems. It ...

In 1993, I was a graduate student in a Critical Studies Ph.D. program studying independent, avant-garde and feminist film and video, figuring out how to write about them, and thinking about what it ...

Critical thinking too often falls by the wayside in schools because there is a lack of consensus about how to teach it, and even what critical thinking is. One of the age-old goals of education is ...

Creative and critical thinking often get ‘lumped together’ as buzzwords within the realm of educational outcomes and, as a result, people often try to draw links between the two. While they may share ...

Everyone likes to think that he or she is a rational person and that his or her ideas are well grounded in rationality. But we don't often think about what exactly it means to be rational or ...