YERYÜZÜ At Education
Thinking Training
Thinking is one of the most distinctive features of man. So much so that only the human ability to think
It can even be said to be human.
His adventure on earth, the mind and thought is an adventure. Being a language-possessed human being can comprehend and express existence through language. It also created the power and ability to think.This faculty gives rise to the human faculties. and paved the way for its growth. In this sense, language, speech, thinking, reasoning, inference Existential features such as being found, making tools, producing culture, revealing history and tradition emerges as a product of human ability.
From this point of view, educating the power of thinking would be to develop the essence that makes human human. Although it may seem that thinking education does not have a direct field of knowledge, when viewed closely, all It can be seen that educational fields are basically a thinking education.Not developing the ability to think an educational activity loses its basic justification and cannot acquire a consciousness on itself. Thinking education, with its contribution to the ability to make sense of, process, structure and reproduce information. It forms the basis of all other trainings. Education and training activity, thus, a simple knowledge the level of awareness that activates the talent and potential of the individual, It turns into a creative process that increases self-consciousness.
Thinking has an important place in our culture. Ibn Khaldun is an individual who can train the ability to think and states that societies have gained a significant advantage in creating a living culture and civilization. According to Farabi, the virtue of thinking, understanding and empathy and makes happy life possible; What is good, beautiful and useful emerges through the virtue of thinking.This Therefore, thinking is the highest value that individuals and societies can have. Besides, Farabi and Ibn Khaldun say that the ability to think is the source of science and arts.
If a Western thinker is able to talk about their own problems, individuals and societies whose thinking power is trained and that they will gain the ability to solve it, in this way, they will be dragged blindly after others. He says they're going to get away with it.
Thinking Education aims to provide students with the following skills:
1- Questioning skill.
2- Research skill.
3- Ability to understand and interpret data.
4- Ability to establish relationships between data
5- Ability to meaningfully integrate existing data.
6- Problem solving skills.
7- Ability to present alternatives.
8- Ability to come up with original ideas and products.
9- Ability to criticize.
10- Ability to think methodically and systematically.
11- The ability to make comparisons.
12- Ability to use evidence.
13- Ability to use language effectively.
14- Fiction/planning skills.
15- The ability to think about existence in unity and integrity.