the goal is to teach students how to evaluate arguments, avoid common fallacies and biases, to inform what they do next. the goal isn't to teach them 'what to do'.
It is difficult because even the definition of critical thinking is debated. Though many try to teach critical thinking indirectly through other subjects, students may still go through their entire schooling years and be poor critical thinkers due to the emphasis of memorization.
No social study (excluding philosophy) explicitly focuses on critical thinking and its personal implementation; they mostly focus on what critical decisions were made by other people.
Teachers who lack critical thinking skills are not qualified to teach them. Because there would not be any teachers trained in the discipline after the creation of the new curriculum, effective teachers will be few and far between.
Solving a bad teacher problem is different from deciding if it would be optimal to teach students critical thinking. Both will need to be solved in order to teach students critical thinking skills.
In the process of teaching logic , such issues would be foundifficult by students and teachers and corrected over time. Which would act as a case study in critical thinking leading to additional real world example based learning.
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