What is it about?
What are preservice PE teachers' definitions of critical thinking? What helped them to gain a better understanding of critical thinking? How did their critical thinking change after taking a methods course for a semester? This study contains the answers to these questions.
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Why is it important?
Critical thinking is one of the most important skills in all fields. Researchers, however, rarely paid attention to preservice PE teachers. With a teacher-as-research philosophy, I looked into how our instruction impacted students' critical thinking over a semester. Results of this study point to that organized learning activities can effectively increase student learning in cognitive domain.
Perspectives
Oftentimes, people think doing research requires stringent conditions. I hope this article can inspire practitioners to initiate their own studies when they are teaching in the classroom.
Jiling Liu
Texas A&M University System
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This page is a summary of: Physical Education Pre-service Teachers’ Understanding, Application, and Development of Critical Thinking, Quest, August 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00336297.2017.1330218.
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