caa a22 4500 378930176 CHVBK 20180305123627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040622xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1548-923X.1026 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1548-923X.1026 Forneris Susan G. 1College of St. Catherine, sforneris@hotmail.com Exploring the Attributes of Critical Thinking: A Conceptual Basis [Elektronische Daten] [Susan G Forneris] Many teaching methods used in nursing education to enhance critical thinking focus on teaching students how to directly apply knowledge; a technically rational approach. While seemingly effective at enhancing students’ critical thinking abilities in structured learning situations, these methods don’t prepare students to operationalize critical thinking to manage the complexities that actually exist in practice. The work of contemporary educational theorists Paulo Freire, Donald Schon, Chris Argyris, Jack Mezirow, Stephen Brookfield, and Robert Tennyson all share similar perspectives on thinking in practice and the use of reflection to achieve a coherence of understanding. Their perspectives provide insight on how educators can shift from a means-end approach to operationalizing thinking in practice. The author identifies four attributes of critical thinking in practice evidenced in these views, followed by a discussion of specific educational strategies that reflect these attributes, and operationalize a critical thinking process in nursing practice to achieve a coherence of understanding. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Nursing Education nationallicence Reflective Practice nationallicence Critical Thinking nationallicence Nursing Pract nationallicence International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship De Gruyter 1/1(2004-06-22) 1:1 2004 1 ijnes https://doi.org/10.2202/1548-923X.1026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1548-923X.1026 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Forneris Susan G. 1College of St. Catherine, sforneris@hotmail.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship De Gruyter 1/1(2004-06-22) 1:1 2004 1 ijnes CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter