Asking questions - critical thinking tools

The study aims at highlighting the way in which the theories of critical thinking from the last 25 years may be exploited in the school practice from primary education. By exploiting the didactic experience and practice from the psycho-pedagogic experiment conducted, we shall illustrate a way of formative intervention in the direction of building critical thinking. The purpose of our intervention is to value the R.W.C.T. methods, the taxonomy of interrogation and the Socratic seminar with a view to forming/building critical thinking skills at students in the 4th grade. On this basis, we shall demonstrate how we have applied a critical thinking stimulation process, during a school year, within the program Asking Questions OMC 3-3-4. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.