Rethinking Critical Thinking

Mays Imad shares how she (and others) is rethinking cricital thinking on episode 410 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It was so important for me to make my own decisions and come to my own conclusions.
-Mays Imad

Thinking has an affective component.
-Mays Imad

Our rational thinking can be hijacked when we are under the influence of fear.
-Mays Imad

Resources

• What would Socrates think? by Mays Imad 
• Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice by Maureen Linker
• Five Essential Ways of Knowing, by Ben Harley and Mays Imad for Inside Higher Ed
• Rumi quote: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
• Susannah McGowan
• Sam Wineburg