Critical Thinking Dispositions of the Turkish Teacher Candidates.

Abstract

Critical thinking can be explained as an effective, organized and functional cognitive process to understand our own thoughts and other people’s opinions and to improve our dispositions to express ourselves. Critical thinking is a process and also dispositions about deciding what to do or believe logically. In addition it provides the possibility of using of their knowledge and talent. The aim of this study is to determine critical thinking dispositions of Turkish teacher candidates who are in the faculty of Education. When the findings regarding students’ critical thinking dispositions are considered, critical thinking dimensions of Open-mindedness and Analyticity are the highest two. Low critical thinking dimensions are Inquisitiveness and Systematicity.