This week on the Where Parents Talk podcast, host Lianne Castelino speaks to Julie Bogart, CEO, Brave Writer,
Homeschooling Expert, author of Raising Critical Thinkers, and mother of 5 about developing critical thinking skills in children.
JULIE BOGART
CEO, Brave Writer
Homeschooling Expert
Author, Raising Critical Thinkers
Mother of 5
“…critical thinking to me is all about self awareness. So in most venues, people think critical thinking is the ability to critique someone else’s ideas. But what I discovered as I spent time in education is that what’s missing in most of our thinking, is our own awareness of our biases, when those get kicked into gear, when we’re triggered by an idea and are resistant to it. In other words, we can’t think well, if we don’t understand the source of authority that drives our own thinking. So critical thinking to me is the capacity to recognize your own bias as it kicks into gear to evaluate data evidence and understand its sources of authority before you start critiquing someone else.”
In this interview, Julie Bogart discusses:
- Raising critical thinkers in the age of disinformation with a focus on self-awareness and evaluating sources of authority
- Parenting techniques and the importance of questioning authority
- Parenting techniques for fostering critical thinking in children
- Teaching critical thinking to teenagers in a polarized society
- Balancing parental authority and scientific evidence in addressing teenage screen time and video game addiction
- Critical thinking in schools, with a focus on viewpoint diversity and exploratory essays .
- Critical thinking skills and their development in children and teenagers