Re-aprender a pensar. La urgencia de formarse en el pensamiento crítico como profesionales y como ciudadanos

Abstract

The complexity of many of daily phenomena defies our comprehension as citizens, due to the lack of the keys to their comprehension and eventual resolution, despite our educational systems with high levels of schooling and accreditation in studies. This challenge the models of training and learning within the education system, as people are credited without the basic resources to think critically and to reflect on themselves, on the way they live and on democracy itself. The text highlights the urgent need to teach how to think critically in all scenarios of training without distinguishing the formative needs of professionalism from the personal ones. Learning to think critically is about education itself. But this will not be possible if we do not analyze first our own limitations and do not attend to the basic keys that make it possible.