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The project CRITHINKEDU – Critical thinking across higher education curricula, financed by the European Commission has the purpose to search good practices related to critical thinking integration into higher education curricula. The following article presents a collection of five interviews with higher education professors from Humanities and STEM, in Romania. This paper presents and compares Romanian teachers’ opinions with those found by the other partners in the project. The help that professors need is on learning materials, assessment and teacher training. Interventions should aim teacher training, but also the educational policy of the universities related to teaching quality assurance, imbedding CT into educational programs design and look for it when evaluating an educational program.
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This work is part of the ‘Critical thinking across the European higher education curricula - CRITHINKEDU’ project, with the reference number 2016-1-PT01-KA203022808, funded by the European Commission/EACEA, through the ERASMUS + Programme.
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Dumitru, D. (2019). Teachers’ Thoughts About How Critical Thinking Is a Part of Their Classes. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_15
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