Abstract
Teaching students thinking may bring improvement to school curricula, and enable students to succeed in their studies and function as competent citizens in future. Researchers highly recommend thinking skills instruction, using in-content or o ut-of-content approaches. Thinking skills are abilities of individuals to perform mental actions and work on ideas externally perceived or internally constructed in order to satisfy a goal. One in-content thinking skills approach - Philosophical Inquiry - is described in this paper and suggestions for implementation are provided. This approach requires the building of a community of inquiry in the classroom and skilful questioning. Despite the lack of teacher training and assessment tools, the teaching of thinking may still be implemented successfully with the commitment of teachers, support from school authorities, and participation in action research.
| Keywords: | teaching of thinking; thinking skills; philosophical inquiry |
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