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To Teach Critical Thinking or Incorporate Critical Thinking in Teaching-Learning Process

After putting my thoughts together to start writing blogs on education scenario in Ghana, I encouraged myself to start with my own experience of encounters with academia in last few years. One of the topics making round in the academic circle nowadays is critical thinking. Suddenly in the last couple of years, this “new” thinking approach has gained a lot of momentum in content development in private universities of Ghana. By heading one of private colleges here, I was also not left untouched with this force of critical thinking. I have always believed since my early days of career, that to think critically on any of the issues is a way to make effective and well informed decisions. Through my interaction with numerous programme panels across multiple content development and approval processes, I was really energized by the strength in which almost all members emphasized on the importance of teaching Critical Thinking across all undergraduate programmes in Ghana. I also total