Project details: Development of Criticality among Undergraduates in Two Academic Disciplines
Research Team
Funding Body
Duration
July 2002 - July 2004
Description
This two-year project, which started in July 2002, sought to:
- Promote understanding of the development of criticality in undergraduates by starting to develop:
- an integrated, interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding the teaching and learning of criticality in higher education, by building on and adapting existing theorisation
- rich empirical descriptions of the development of criticality within particular academic disciplines, related to the theoretical framework above.
- Clarify epistemological and curricular confusion about the teaching and learning of criticality.
- Clarify how the reality on the ground as regards the development of criticality related to policy initiatives.
- Provide a foundation for future research on:
- the transfer of criticality to other disciplines and life situations
- more effective teaching and learning of criticality.
Visit the website at www.critical.soton.ac.uk
