Critical Thinking
Week 1
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• Introduction
• Share your Name
• What is your primary occupation?
• Tell me One thing you are critical about
yourself –
WHY?
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Defining Critical Thinking
If you had to define “Critical Thinking”, how would
you define it?
Think and Write
Choose a partner and share each other’s definition.
Do you agree with your partner’s definition? Yes or
No?
WHY?
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Critical Thinking
• Critical thinking is a general term that covers all
thinking processes that strive to get below the
surface of something: questioning, probing,
analysing, testing and exploring.
• It skills of persistence to examine and re-examine
an argument, in order to take in all the angles and
weigh up evidence on every side.
• To think critically is never to take something on
‘face value’ but to question and think
independently about an issue.
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Which of these arguments do you
find the most persuasive? Why?
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(Shironosov, 2009)
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What is your response?
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Critical Thinking
• Critical thinking allows us to think about our own
thoughts and the reasons behind our points of view
• We reflect on our won ways of making decisions or
solving problems
• In critical thinking, our thoughts and ideas are
based not on our biases or prejudices but on logic
and information we might gather and filter from
many sources
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What is critical thinking?
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Objectives of Critical Thinking
• In Business and Management studies –
demonstrate knowledge and comprehension –
employ Bloom’s higher-order cognitive skills of
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Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Creation
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Questions to critical thinking
• When did India get Independence?
• How did India’s independence movement impact the
political economy of southasia?
• When did Nepal promulgate its latest Constitution?
• How did the promulgation of Nepal’s latest constitution
impact is political economy?
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Using Critical Thinking in
Workplace
Suppose at work, one of your employees asks to take
a week off the following month and you respond;
How about?
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Imagine you are an employer –
letter of application
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Group Work
• Divide into four groups and discuss how you would
convince someone at work to accept the claims;
• I should be given a pay rise (or promotion)
• I should be allowed to do my job differently
• One of the co-workers should be reprimanded (or fired)
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Approaching Critical Thinking
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I Want a Wife
• What assumptions does Brady make about her
audience? About wives? Her essay was written in
1971—does it still make sense today? Why or why
not?
• How would you interpret if you heard your female
co-worker said, ‘I want a wife’ at your workplace?
• With campaigns such as #MeToo or #Time’sUp,
people are voicing against gender pay gap and
sexual harassment at workplace. What’s your take
on women’s empowerment and women’s rights
movement?
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