System of indicators on critical thinking in postgraduate studies on education at the University of Tolima

Sistema de indicadores sobre pensamiento crítico en postgrado sobre educación en la Universidad del Tolima

Abstract

The missionary function of the University of Tolima (UT) since 2013 recognizes a social projection towards its environment to build a sustainable, democratic, equitable, supportive society, with social justice and peace. The areas of Education and Social Sciences are directly involved in the training of human resources. One way is to stimulate critical thinking in the university community through postgraduate studies. The Faculty of Educational Sciences develops a project aimed at proposing curricular and methodological alternatives to promote this thinking for social mobilization. Its first objective is to propose a system of indicators on critical thinking, to guide its stimulation in the postgraduate studies in the areas of Education and Social Sciences at the UT. A six-step procedure was applied using mixed approach methods, such as documentary study, the work table and the Delphy method to achieve content, criterion, construct, expert and understanding validity. The result was the operationalization of the variable in three dimensions and 20 indicators. The work concludes about the validity of the system of indicators to guide the diagnostic and intervention work in the population context of interest.