Resumen
Estudio cualitativo sobre el concepto de pensamiento crítico, las habilidades que lo componen y las estrategias para su enseñanza, a partir de un cuestionario aplicado a una docena de académicos de humanidades de universidades chilenas. Usando metodología de Análisis del Discurso, se examinan las respuestas de los docentes, determinando que gran parte de ellas se encuentran organizadas alrededor de metáforas que presentan el pensamiento crítico como un conflicto, más otras que lo remiten al análisis de textos o a una forma de reflexión respecto del sujeto y su relación con la sociedad. La consistencia y circularidad hermenéutica de las conceptualizaciones que subyacen a estas metáforas, así como sus consecuencias en la interpretación de las estrategias didácticas de las humanidades, apuntan hacia una configuración ideológica que excede el discurso disciplinar y remite, en último término, al discurso académico.
Concepts about critical thinking in the discourse of humanities professors from Chileans universities
Abstract
This is a qualitative study on the concept of critical thinking, the skills that compose it and the strategies for its teaching. It is based on a questionnaire applied to a dozen humanities professors from Chilean universities whose responses are examined through a Critical Discourse Analysis methodology. An important part of the responses is organized around metaphors that present critical thinking as a conflict, while others refer to text analysis or reflections around the subject and its relationship with society. The consistency and hermeneutic circle of the concepts that underly those metaphors, as its consequences for the interpretation of the humanities didactic strategies, point to an ideological configuration beyond the disciplinary discourse, while belongs to the academia discourse itself.
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