Clear skies ahead: optimizing the learning environment for critical thinking from a qualitative analysis of interviews with expert teachers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The learning environment refers to the physical, pedagogical, and psychosocial contexts in which learning occurs and critically influences the educational experience of trainees in the health professions. However, the manner in which individual faculty explicitly organize the educational setting to facilitate learning of essential competencies such as critical thinking deserves more examination; lack of attention to this component can undermine the formal curriculum. The purpose of our study was to examine how faculty shape the learning environment to advance their learners' development of critical thinking.

Methods

We took a constructivist grounded theory approach using the framework method for qualitative content analysis. Data were derived from interviews con

SUBMITTER: Jaffe LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820647 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature