Critical Thinking Tasks Manifested in Indonesian Language Textbooks for Senior Secondary Students

Nani Solihati,Ade Hikmat

doi:10.1177/2158244018802164

Abstract

This study aims to investigate to what extent critical thinking is manifested in the Indonesian language textbooks used by senior high school students in Indonesia. Content analysis has been adopte...

Highlights

Critical thinking has long been part of Western education, first gaining attention during the Enlightenment era in which science and technology developed very quickly and freedom of speech and expression started (Lawton & Gordon, 2002)
This study adopted content analysis to investigate to what extent tasks in Indonesian textbooks used by senior secondary school students contained the elements of critical thinking
The elements of critical thinking contained in the Indonesian language textbooks were not varied as not all the categories of Ilyas’s framework of critical thinking were evident

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Introduction

Critical thinking has long been part of Western education, first gaining attention during the Enlightenment era in which science and technology developed very quickly and freedom of speech and expression started (Lawton & Gordon, 2002). Critical thinking has spread to nonWestern countries. Academics in non-Western countries have voiced their support for the inclusion of critical thinking in education. Some non-Western countries such as Malaysia (Salih, 2010), Singapore (Matthews & Lally, 2010), and Taiwan C. Yang & Chung, 2009) have even officially declared the integration of critical thinking into their education system

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