Annotated Bibliography: Critical Thinking for University Students

This annotated bibliography provides a concise overview of two research articles focusing on critical thinking within the context of higher education. The first article, by Egege and Kutieleh (2004), examines the challenges faced by universities when dealing with foreign students from diverse cultural backgrounds, particularly those from Southeast Asian countries. It highlights the importance of critical thinking in academic performance and proposes strategies to address cultural biases and differences in learning styles. The second article, by Nedelcu (2017), delves into the theoretical and practical aspects of critical thinking, differentiating between critical thinking, critical spirit, and criticism. It explores the social benefits of critical thinking in social and political spheres, and the importance of transparency in promoting social justice. The bibliography also notes the strengths and weaknesses of each article, including the methodologies used and the impact on the understanding of critical thinking in different contexts. This resource is valuable for students seeking to understand critical thinking and its application in academic and social settings, offering insights into challenges and potential solutions in higher education.

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Article 2:
Egege, S., & Kutieleh, S. (2004). Critical Thinking: Teaching Foreign
Notions to Foreign Students. International Education Journal, 4(4),
75-85.
This article emphasizes on the difficulties faced by universities when dealing with foreign
students of different cultures and local student. This article also put forward some approaches of
to overcome some approaches. According to authors, University of Australia exposed to students
of divere culture specifically 80% of the students belonged to south East Asian countries.
Therefore, problem arises in the field of academics due to different cultures, biasness and
morality. According authors, critical thinking considered as crucial factor that differentiate
between the students coming from different cultures. Therefore, universities incorporated the
critical thinking in different project and grade student on the basis of it. Authors reported that,
students from south east Asian countries considered to be non critical in their approach in
academic since they poorly analyze the requirement of any academic texts. Problem also
addressed in the learning styles and diverse attitude of the students. However, author suggested
that difficulties can be resolved if foreign students has sound knowledge about languages that
teach in universities.
It is also able to resolve the issues such as psychological distress that foreign students are
facing. Problem also resolved by enhancing the thinking ability of the students, involving them
in projects that will trigger the analytic power and problem solving capabilities of them. The
main strength of this article lies in the method they adopted to address the issues of universities.
Authors organized a workshop for student to involve them in the workshop and also compiled
feedbacks of the student in order to obtain better result.

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Article 2:
Nedelcu, E. (2017). CRITICAL THINKING BETWEEN THEORY AND
PRACTICE. Romanian Review of Social Sciences, (12).
This article emphasizes on the concept of Critical Thinking the
difference between Theory and Practice of critical thinking. The focus of the
study is to analyse and discuss the three basic concepts of critical thinking
namely critical thinking”, “critical spirit” and “criticism”. The study
examined the social benefits of critical thinking when it is applied in social
and political spheres. In the second part of this paper, several “corrupted”
forms of criticism as we identified them in the Romanian public space have
been briefly analysed. The third part of this study presented a arguments on
the required strategies to educate critical thinking in Romanian society along
with the practice of protesting and accepting justified critics. The paper has
been found that a effective and transparent critical thinking ability can
increase the capability of social justice in society. As opined by Nedelcu
(2017), criticism is art of protest, revolution and social justice in a corruption
free society.
The major strength of the paper lies on the field of study adopted by
the authors for addressing the practical interpretation of critical thinking and
transparency of the voice. The Research based on secondary data collection
from various text books, journal and previous interviews. The paper is
valuable for understanding the social conflict and the connection of criticism

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and the justice. However, the major weakness of this paper is, its selection of
data collection strategy. The lack of real time data analysis bounded the
study portray a more clear aspect of the critical thinking in social and
political implementation. It bounded the tangibility of the information
presentation through the research.
Bibliography:
Egege, S., & Kutieleh, S. (2004). Critical Thinking: Teaching Foreign Notions
to Foreign Students. International Education Journal, 4(4), 75-85.
Nedelcu, E. (2017). CRITICAL THINKING BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Romanian Review of Social Sciences, (12).