Rethinking Critical Thinking, with Mays Imad

Mays Imad shares how she (and others) is rethinking cricital thinking on episode 410 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

It was so important for me to make my own decisions and come to my own conclusions.
-Mays Imad

Thinking has an affective component.
-Mays Imad

Our rational thinking can be hijacked when we are under the influence of fear.
-Mays Imad

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Resources

• What would Socrates think? by Mays Imad 
• Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice by Maureen Linker
• Five Essential Ways of Knowing, by Ben Harley and Mays Imad for Inside Higher Ed
• Rumi quote: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
• Susannah McGowan
• Sam Wineburg

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