Levels of Critical Thinking of Secondary Agriculture Students

What kind of knowledge are agricultural educators imparting to their students? Glaser (1984) described knowledge that students receive and express, but cannot use effectively for thinking and learning as “passive knowledge”. Lee (1980) expressed a concern about the use of instructional methodologies that "allow students to assume a passive rather than active role in the learning activities of the classroom/laboratory” (p. 5). Crunkilton (1988) alluded to perhaps an even greater problem when he stated, “The often overlooked aspect of critical thinking is that thinking is to prepare one only for action, when, in fact, thinking should also prepare one for feeling” (p. 8).