Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education
Developing critical thinking skills among undergraduates has been set as an aim in the higher education for years. In recent times, it has become more crucial in implementing this aim to improve students’ commitment to civic engagement. Thus, this study examined the association between civic engagem...
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| author | Ahrari, Seyedali Abu Samah, Bahaman Hassan, Md Salleh Abdul Wahat, Nor Wahiza Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab |
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| description | Developing critical thinking skills among undergraduates has been set as an aim in the higher education for years. In recent times, it has become more crucial in implementing this aim to improve students’ commitment to civic engagement. Thus, this study examined the association between civic engagement and critical thinking skills of Malaysian undergraduates. Based on related literature, this study is quantitative in nature where a total of 400 regular university students were chosen as participants. The results have proved that civic engagement has an impact on the students' critical thinking skills and its sub-domains can explain about almost half of the variance in critical thinking ability in the Malaysian context. Although civic skills have superior impacts on critical thinking skills, civic disposition seems to have less importance on it. The results also reveal the negative association between civic knowledge and critical thinking skills. It is hoped that this study can also provide the necessary resources for university faculty and administrators who are also interested in implementing civic engagement within the higher education context to build bridges between the university and its communities. |
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| spelling | upm-554322019-02-13T01:16:52Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55432/ Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education Ahrari, Seyedali Abu Samah, Bahaman Hassan, Md Salleh Abdul Wahat, Nor Wahiza Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab Developing critical thinking skills among undergraduates has been set as an aim in the higher education for years. In recent times, it has become more crucial in implementing this aim to improve students’ commitment to civic engagement. Thus, this study examined the association between civic engagement and critical thinking skills of Malaysian undergraduates. Based on related literature, this study is quantitative in nature where a total of 400 regular university students were chosen as participants. The results have proved that civic engagement has an impact on the students' critical thinking skills and its sub-domains can explain about almost half of the variance in critical thinking ability in the Malaysian context. Although civic skills have superior impacts on critical thinking skills, civic disposition seems to have less importance on it. The results also reveal the negative association between civic knowledge and critical thinking skills. It is hoped that this study can also provide the necessary resources for university faculty and administrators who are also interested in implementing civic engagement within the higher education context to build bridges between the university and its communities. Elsevier 2016-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55432/1/Deepening%20critical%20thinking%20skills%20through%20civic%20engagement%20in%20Malaysian%20higher%20.pdf Ahrari, Seyedali and Abu Samah, Bahaman and Hassan, Md Salleh and Abdul Wahat, Nor Wahiza and Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab (2016) Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 22. pp. 121-128. ISSN 1871-1871; ESSN: 1878-0423 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871187116301304 10.1016/j.tsc.2016.09.009 |
| spellingShingle | Ahrari, Seyedali Abu Samah, Bahaman Hassan, Md Salleh Abdul Wahat, Nor Wahiza Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title | Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title_full | Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title_fullStr | Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title_short | Deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in Malaysia higher education |
| title_sort | deepening critical thinking skills through civic engagement in malaysia higher education |
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