O uso das TIC na promoção do pensamento crítico de Futuros Professores

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Rui Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v6i1.4121

Critical Thinking (CT), as widely studied over the last 30 years, is one of the educational goals today and it is linked to the promotion of key competences in different educational levels, including Higher Education. In Teacher Education and within the curricular subject Didactic of Science of University of Aveiro Critical Thinking has been a major concern. To this aim, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the promotion of virtual learning communities have had a relevant role and a higher use. This paper describes the procedures used to implement ICT and to explore their potential in the promotion of Critical Thinking skills of 34 master students in two consecutive academic years. With a combined nature, the study was carried out using different techniques and instruments for data collection, such as Cornell Critical Thinking Test (level X). Data obtained with this instrument were statistically analyzed and all the other obtained data, like those from virtual communities interactions, were subjected to content analysis. The results suggest that in spite of the initial difficulties, namely the quality of responses to some proposed activities and tasks, including assessment, the master students revealed a gradual improvement in their CT potential. ICT, within Didactic of Science, can be regarded as an efficient tool to enhance critical thinking skills in future Basic Education teachers.