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ERIC Number: EJ399604
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Critical Thinking: Schemata vs. Skills.
Brandhorst, Allan R.
Theory and Research in Social Education, v17 n3 p196-209 Sum 1989
Refutes the idea that critical thinking is not a skill by analyzing it from the phenomenological perspective of Edmund Husserl, and from the hermeneutic perspective of Martin Heidegger. Develops the thesis that critical thinking is a restructuring of schemata. Addresses the problem of attention or student engagement. (LS)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Processing, Memory, Phenomenology, Psychological Studies, Schemata (Cognition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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