Students Critical Thinking Toward Environmental Issues: An Analysis on Students’ Arguments

Alies Poetri Lintangsari (), Widya Caterine Perdhani and Ni Wayan Swardhani
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Alies Poetri Lintangsari: Universitas Brawijaya
Widya Caterine Perdhani: Universitas Brawijaya
Ni Wayan Swardhani: Universitas Brawijaya

A chapter in Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2022), 2023, pp 440-446 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Environmental issues have attracted many attentions of the scholars and practitioners. One of the urgencies is incorporating environmental issues in education to raise the young generation awareness. One of the skills that is vital to raise student’s awareness on environmental issues is the critical thinking, it helps the students to evaluate argument and propose an innovating solution to overcome environmental challenges. This research reported the quality of students’ arguments on environmental topic in small group discussion. Content analysis applied to analyze the students’ argument quality based on 10 critical thinking quality namely relevance, importance, novelty, bringing outside knowledge, justification, critical assessment, linking ideas, resolving ambiguity, practical utility and focus of the discussion. Among 10 categories, novelty quality is less found in the students’ arguments. This research discusses the possible link and potential of each category to cater students critical thinking in relation to the environmental issues.

Keywords: critical thinking; arguments; environmental issues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-140-1_44

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