Thinking About Social Skills

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Social cognition: thinking categorically about others.

In attempting to make sense of other people, perceivers regularly construct and use categorical representations to simplify and streamline the person perception process. Noting the importance of categorical thinking in everyday life, our emphasis in this chapter is on the cognitive dynamics of categorical social perception. In reviewing current research on this topic, three specific issues are ...

From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms

In October 1998 The Department for Education and Employment commissioned a review and evaluation of research into thinking skills and related areas. The purpose of the review was to analyse what is currently understood by the term “thinking skills” and their role in the learning process; to identify approaches to developing children’s thinking and to evaluate their effectiveness; to consider ho...

The Effect of Critical Thinking Skills Training on the Development of Social Skills and Cognitive Skills Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching critical thinking skills on students' social and cognitive development. This quasi-experimental study was performed using pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population consisted of all seventh grade female students in Karaj in the academic year 95-96. Multistage cluster sampling method was used for sampl...

Teaching Thinking Skills