Abstract
This article deals with the study of critical thinking, the need and the ways to apply it in regional studies. It analyzes scientific and educational approaches to developing critical thinking in Asia-Pacific region. It studies them in a theoretical level and tests across regional studies. It gives the reasons to develop critical thinking across regional studies to improve a complex regional analysis in the modern conditions of informatization. It proves the need of integration of critical thinking and regional studies. The author offers to enlarge the model of professional competences of regional studies experts with critical thinking development, emphasizing the purposeful and systematic way of this development. The hypothesis of the work is that investigation of the scientific approaches to developing critical thinking in Asian-Pacific region will promote critical thinking of regional studies experts and their ability to analyse the region. It presents the results showing the effectiveness of the given professional competence model and higher level of critical thinking developed by purposeful and systematic steps during regional studies activities.
Highlights
In dynamic processes of the world, critical thinking technologies provide a non-standard approach to solving professional problems in the regional analytics that do not have templates
The materials of the study are the literature from the different fields of science written by foreign and Russian authors on regional studies, sociology, economics, media education, methodology; US official statistics, theses on the studied problem, monographs and analytical articles, collections of official documents, statistical data presented on the Websites joannecantor.com, plato.stanford.edu, mirznanii.com, econbooks.ru, nsportal.ru, multiurok.ru, studopedia.su, etc. were sources of materials of this research
The research methods are the study and analyses of the scientific literature of domestic and foreign authors on regional studies, pedagogy, media education, journalism, media criticism, theses on the problem, synthesis, generalization, comparison
Summary
In dynamic processes of the world, critical thinking technologies provide a non-standard approach to solving professional problems in the regional analytics that do not have templates. In order to achieve better results in a complex regional analysis the regional studies expert is supposed to find the necessary information about the definite region, analyse it, evaluate it critically, perceive latent arguments, understand the author's motives and the engaged nature of the sources. Today science has accumulated a certain amount of theoretical knowledge to form critical thinking of regional studies experts. The basics of regional analysis were studied by W. The study of scientific research and curricular for regional studies experts shows the lack of focused development of critical thinking. While the potential for critical thinking in a complex regional analysis is solid
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