Teaching Critical Thinking To International Masters' Students: Report On Some Action Research

摘要

The Oxford Brookes MSc in International Management recruits over sixty students from more than twenty countries. Teaching experience suggests that many of these students have difficulty moving from a predominantly descriptive approach to a critical one. The paper reports on a piece of action research on the Research Methods course in which a teaching framework was developed. It focuses on supporting learning to think critically and on enabling students to develop a critical approach using textual de-construction and mind-mapping as key tools in an experiential learning process.