Facilitating Students’ Critical Thinking in an Inclusive Educational Environment: Model Development and Testing

The promotion of inclusive education provides a new opportunity and research perspective for the development of critical thinking, which has gradually attracted researchers' attention. Combined with existing research results, the study constructs a model of inclusive education to promote the development of critical thinking, in which the inclusive education activities and critical thinking development elements are integrated. In order to validate the designed model, an empirical study on 90 English majors for 4 months was carried out, the results of which are presented in this paper. The results suggest that under the guidance of the social learning theory the developed model promotes the development of students' critical thinking disposition effectively. Among the related factors that influence the development of critical thinking dispositions in inclusive education, evaluation and reflection and activity task have more significant influence on the development of critical thinking.