Critical Thinking
A major shift from harsh criticism is when a person intentionally activities his or her academic capacity to use critical thinking. One of the trends of such thinking is introduced by benjamin bloom...
View ArticleCritical Literacies
Another”neutral”but somewhat similar to Bloom’s taxonomy is what is termed as “critical literacies” by Hall (2001) that include”the ability to interpret, analyze,and evaluate non print texts and other...
View ArticleCritical Reading
In Carter and Nunan’s(2001) glossary, critical reading refers to”a reading practice which attends to the ideological under penning of text, as signaled not so much by what a writer choose as topic but...
View ArticleCritical Theory
While critical reading from Carter and Nunan’s (2001) perspective is somewhat limited to identify the “ideology underpinning of text”, critical theory encapsulates (almost) the whole notion of critical...
View ArticleCritical Discourse Analysis
In language studies,critical theory has been explored through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Historically, CDA is a development from “critical linguistics” originally popularized by scholars in the...
View ArticleFreirean Critical Pedagogy
Unlike CDA which is somewhat restricted to the critical analysis of spoken and written text to find the hidden agenda of the dominant society and how inequality has been perpetuated by this society and...
View ArticleProblematizing sectarian secularism and spiritualism
Let me now turn our attention to my personal contemplation:I know some spiritual insights that have influenced my life, but I do not (and certainly will never) know the totality of how...
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