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Module 8: Critical thinking for social sustainability: leaving no one behind
Instructor
Klaipėda University, Lithuania
291
Students
enrolled
- Description
- Curriculum
This module explores critical thinking through the lens of sustainability, focusing on climate change and social sustainability. It delves into the development of rational thinking skills, communication strategies, and collaborative learning formats. Participants will learn to navigate information overload, cultivate value-based attitudes, and embrace mistakes as part of the learning process.
- The main aim of the module is to empower learners to take informed decisions and responsible actions for environmental integrity and social sustainability, for present and future generations respecting cultural diversity.
- The main learning objectives of the module are to develop critical learners’ thinking as an individual’s ability to apply rational thinking skills: analysis, synthesis, problem recognition and problem-solving, inference, and evaluation towards social sustainability.
Learning Outcomes:
- Knowledge-based outcomes (theoretical knowledge)
- Skill-based outcomes (practical abilities, capabilities)
- Attitudinal outcomes (value-based attitude towards sustainability)
Introduction
1. Critical thinking in the context of climate change
2. Critical thinking and social sustainability
3.The baseline of critical thinking
4.How do we make sense of the information overload?
5. Critical thinking affects all forms of communication
6.Asking the right questions: the development of necessary communication skills
7. The role of logic in critical thinking
8.The development of value-based attitudes
9.Recognition mistakes, misunderstandings, and confusion as a strength
Quiz Module 8
