Developing critical thinking skills.

As a student and teacher of adult education in nursing, the writer could not help but be interested in the way adults learn. Over the years this interest had extended to curriculum development. The curriculum models which were explored and even those designed by the writer over the years seemed to provide the structure needed for effective teaching and learning situations but what was not realized was that subconsciously the search was for a framework for the development of thinking sk ills as w ell. This distinction is most important.