Critical thinking as the main goal of university education

1) Dr. Zlatka Vakleva, Assist. Prof., 2) Prof. Dr. Tonya Georgieva
1) University of Plovdiv “P. Hilendarsky” Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2) Agricultural University Plovdiv, Bulgaria

https://doi.org/10.53656/ped2021-1.04

Abstract. Pedagogical research examines the conceptual emphases of critical thinking in the context of university education. This development is a contribution to the discussion on the problem of critical thinking as the main goal of the educational process at the university. The following are considered: conceptual accents for critical thinking as the main goal of university education; a set of content components and pedagogical mechanisms for effective organization of the educational process for the formation of critical thinking in students; one of the most popular scales for measuring critical thinking of UF/EMI. In the context of critical thinking, models of the modern personality and a system of critical thinking skills are presented, which are a major contribution to the research.
Keywords: critical thinking; UF/EMI – scale; educational process at the university; didactic modeling

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