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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Promoting Critical Thinking Skills Within the Second Class Informatics
Textbook of the Greek Lyceum
Ioannis Oikonomidis, Chryssa Sofianopoulou
(Department of Informatics & Telematics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece)
Abstract: Societies and individuals are constantly facing problems. Critical thinking can contribute in improving problem solving skills. It can support identifying, constructing and evaluating arguments. It can help individuals to develop decision making competencies and communication skills. People can use critical thinking in order to confront their prejudices and stereotypes. These are some of the reasons why critical thinking is considered as a key pedagogical goal in many levels of education. Regarding Informatics, students cannot develop skills related to it, if they cannot think critically. Consequently, critical thinking is essential in teaching Informatics. For this reason, in Informatics textbooks the cultivation of critical thinking skills should be promoted. The present research aims to determine whether the cultivation of critical thinking skill is promoted within Informatics textbook of the second class of the Greek Lyceum. The method that was used in this paper is the Qualitative Content Analysis. The findings of the present study showed that within the examined textbook the promotion of the cultivation of critical thinking skills is insufficient and does not treat these skills equally.
Key words: critical thinking, critical thinking skills, content analysis, informatics, textbooks
