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An empirical analysis of the relationship between nature of science and critical thinking through science definitions and thinking skills
Critical thinking (CRT) skills transversally pervade education and nature of science (NOS) knowledge is a key component of science literacy. Some...
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Modeling the relationship between academic self-efficacy, metacognitive thinking skills, career plan, and academic motivation
The fact that pre-service teachers have self-efficacy, the belief that they can succeed in an academic job, activates their metacognitive thinking...
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Do university academics’ thinking styles account for their job satisfaction? A cross-sectional study
The present research was pioneered to examine the predictive power of academics’ thinking styles for their job satisfaction. A convenient sample of...
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Positive Psychology and Tourism: Positive Tourism
Positive psychology is a growing global research field of psychology that has flourished in the last two decades. Positive psychology suggests that...
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Association of personality traits and socio-environmental factors with COVID-19 pandemic-related conspiratorial thinking in the D-A-CH region
Misinformation, lack of trust, and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic have fostered the emergence of new conspiracy theories. In August 2021,...
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Rethinking critical thinking for social justice: Introducing a new measure of critical being that emphasizes thought, reflection, and action
While postsecondary stakeholders agree that critical thinking is an essential college outcome, it is challenging to measure this outcome using...
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Thinking About Disability: Implications for Practice
This chapter considers the diversity of people with disabilities, highlighting their common experiences of significant social disadvantage on all...
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Euphorias! Positive Feelings Within Negative Conditions
People within marginal gender, sex, and sexuality groups are mostly framed within conservative psycho-medical research, or critical empowerment...
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Using a metacognitive learning approach to enhance students’ critical thinking skills through mathematics education
This study aims to describe how the metacognitive learning approach (MLA) helped a university's mathematics lecturer enhance students' Mathematical...
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Thinking About Aliens
Since time immemorial, gazing up at the starlit night sky has inspired mankind's imagination and thirst for knowledge. As early as the Stone Age,...
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Thinking About Failing
This chapter explores how academic researchers have understood the concept of failure. The chapter focuses on public policy literature to develop an...
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Positive Youth Development Through Holistic Approach
Youth development has become a poignant topic of discussion due to the sheer size of this population. Therefore, policy makers of most countries are...
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Resilience Thinking in Reindeer Husbandry
Resilience expresses the capacity of a social-ecological system to adapt to, absorb, or withstand perturbations and other stressors so that the...
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Critical thinking and non-formal Islamic education: Perspectives from young Muslims in the Netherlands
Critical thinking is a highly valued skill in the twenty-first century, and its incorporation into formal school curricula as a core skill is nearly...
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Systems Thinking: The Consciousness of Pilgrims and Locals on the Camino de Santiago
This chapter discusses systems thinking and qualitative modelling within System Dynamics (SD) in the context of sustainable pilgrimage for earthly...
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New thinking in the theoretical framework of hydro-hegemony, with emphasis on the aras transboundary basin
The conceptual and theoretical framework of hydro-hegemony, is of increasing importance to predict the behaviors and strategies of the...
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The Prevalence of Positive Affect over Negative Affect in Adolescents’ Well-being: Moderating Role of Individualism
Emotional experiences (positive and negative affect) profoundly influence adolescents’ health and psycho-social functioning. Both positive and...
