@lifeb4man @rasmansa I'm gonna chime in here and say that "critical thinking" is a context-dependent concept. What an instructor in geography calls "critical thinking" is not at all the same process with the same components as what an instructor in literature studies calls by the same name. 1/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa In fact, you'd find different takes on "critical thinking" between different branches of the same discipline. Feel like you've understood what "critical thinking" means and how it should look in the final paper for your literary theory class? 2/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa Now take it to "Chaucer and the Middle Ages" course and see if it works the same way! It won't. Because to think critically in one field/subdiscipline highly depends on what materials one works with, what current methods are, and what questions the field is grappling with. 3/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa Once one starts digging into the disciplinary nature of all university courses and programs, those calls for "both sides!" and "viewpoint diversity!" start to look ignorant really fast. 4/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa Best advice I can give is: if the methods and current questions of the subfield as its being presented by the instructor really go against your political view, don't take this course. 5/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa Or, negotiate your way through approaches you don't like to a compromise that lets you do work you can nevertheless be excited about.
Calls from outside the uni for "both sides" aren't going to get you traction.
Unless they're delivered through brute political interference. 6/
Calls from outside the uni for "both sides" aren't going to get you traction.
Unless they're delivered through brute political interference. 6/
@lifeb4man @rasmansa And in the name of independent inquiry in our universities, we should all be against that. 7/
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