Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2022)

Students Critical Thinking Toward Environmental Issues: An Analysis on Students’ Arguments

Authors
Alies Poetri Lintangsari1, *, Widya Caterine Perdhani1, Ni Wayan Swardhani1
1Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: alieslintang@ub.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Alies Poetri Lintangsari
Available Online 30 April 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-140-1_44How to use a DOI?
Keywords
critical thinking; arguments; environmental issues
Abstract

Environmental issues have attracted many attentions of the scholars and practitioners. One of the urgencies is incorporating environmental issues in education to raise the young generation awareness. One of the skills that is vital to raise student’s awareness on environmental issues is the critical thinking, it helps the students to evaluate argument and propose an innovating solution to overcome environmental challenges. This research reported the quality of students’ arguments on environmental topic in small group discussion. Content analysis applied to analyze the students’ argument quality based on 10 critical thinking quality namely relevance, importance, novelty, bringing outside knowledge, justification, critical assessment, linking ideas, resolving ambiguity, practical utility and focus of the discussion. Among 10 categories, novelty quality is less found in the students’ arguments. This research discusses the possible link and potential of each category to cater students critical thinking in relation to the environmental issues.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2022)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
30 April 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-140-1_44
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-140-1_44How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Alies Poetri Lintangsari
AU  - Widya Caterine Perdhani
AU  - Ni Wayan Swardhani
PY  - 2023
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 Brawijaya International Conference (BIC 2022)
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EP  - 446
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