ABSTRACT
This chapter explains students' intellectual growth and development by engaging them in considering and thinking through complex, authentic problematic situations, ones not easily resolved with simple solutions. Critical thinking is the use of our intelligent faculties in order to establish the value or worth of a claim, conclusion or proposed course of action. Critical thinking, then, involves doing hard analytic thinking often posing probing questions before we are ready to cite our Conclusions with Reasons and Evidence. During the course of three years working with the high school teachers presented all of the definitions given above at play in one form or another. Part of undoing 'the folded lie' involves challenging socio-political realities like wealth disparities, racism. But it also involves reconsidering a way of life which has led us to lose touch with fundamental human realities like wondering, growing food, really listening to each other, and meaningfully dealing with death.
