ABSTRACT

Take a moment to reflect on what your definition is for thinking. If you struggled to come up with what you believe is a clear definition, don’t anguish over it because you are not alone. John Dewey in How we think wrote, “No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it is not easy to define just what we mean by them” (1910, p. 1, original italics). The words that Dewey wrote decades ago still ring true. Thinking remains a complex concept that is often used in a variety of contexts to indicate very different things; therefore, at any given time, understanding what thinking means can be quite a challenge.