Building Children's Critical Thinking by Puzzle Story Telling

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

critical thinking, puzzle story telling

Abstract

Critical thinking is a crucial skill for children as the future of human resources. Children as a human generation should be able to think critically and build knowledge as the fundamental construction. This means that children should be able to analyse into several sights for problem solving. Puzzle story can be an aid for critical thinking scaffolding. Children organize the stories selection based on their own imagination. Teacher provides children with an example of starting direction while the rest and the end of the stories are organized by children as an active story organizer and story teller. This way provides them a hook for creative thinking. Puzzle stories can help children to think creatively and analyse the situation and problem in the several alternatives directions. The research has been conducted in the Kindergarten in Duri, Riau Province. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The researchers found that most of the students (86.6%) were able to deliver stories based on their own arrangement. It indicates that the children are able to think critically in developing ideas.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Elise Muryanti
AU  - Yuli Herman
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Building Children's Critical Thinking by Puzzle Story Telling
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 147
EP  - 151
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.25
DO  - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.25
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