Enseñar o aprender a pensar

Abstract

The present work proposes the necessity of improving our capacity to think and explains and assesses the different ways that have been used to get it. In a first section, the nature of the thought is described, its importance, the possibility of improving it and the way of achieving it. In the following section, four general programs to teach to think are introduced. They will be assessed in the following heading, in which the most convenient approaches to evaluate any initiative dedicated to improve our reflection capacity are also synthesized. This evaluation is carried out in two levels: a conceptual one and an empiric one. In the first one several approaches of efficiency are applied; and in the second some different intervention designs, once valued in certain detail, both for the approaches and the designs. The final reflection is that all effort of teaching or learning to think is always a profitable investment.