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Critical Thinking and the Christian Perspective:

A Response to Baird and Soden

by Wendy Dutton, Thomas Hart and Rebecca Patten

Patten College

In their article, "Cartesian Values and the Critical

Thinking Movement," Faculty Dialogue (Winter 1993), Dr. Forrest

Baird and Dr. Dale Soden critique the critical thinking movement

by suggesting that it is based on Descartes's paradigm. Unlike

educators who find the advocacy of critical thinking a worrisome

thing because it redefines the role of the educator as a

questioner who models thinking rather than as a lecturer who

prescribes knowledge, they raise questions about whether critical

thinking is a viable enterprise for faculty who hope to integrate

faith and learning in the classroom. As Christian educators,

however, we find this to be a disturbing proposition. Certainly,

there is plenty of room for......

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