Strategies to strengthen critical thinking in higher education students. A review study

Abstract

Education in Latin America, especially in Peru, urgently needs to be observed from a different angle for intervention and thus achieve the achievement of a competency-based approach where the strengthening of criticality is essential in academic training in higher education. This is where the present research arose, the purpose of which was to describe the strategies situated to strengthen critical thinking in higher education students. The methodology used responds to a monographic documentary research of a descriptive level. Where different online documents were studied with the key words: higher education, critical thinking, situated strategies. These documents respond to theses, scientific articles and official documents of the government of Peru. It is worth highlighting the emergence of situated strategies, where the work carried out by teachers leads to the success of learning, taking it from a significant level to another called sustainable meaningful learning, making presence of learning based on: research, problems, cases and projects identified in diverse academic literatures such as problem-based learning (PBL), inquiry-based learning (ABI), learning based on analysis and case study (ABAC), and project-based learning (ABPro), In conclusion it can be said that it is important for students to better develop their ability to process information, make value judgments and enrich their power of criticality to provide solutions to problems. Therefore, the standards of critical thinking for the higher level are being met.