Teaching Thinking: principles, problems and programmes

The world‐wide explosion of interest in the idea of teaching thinking is a powerful force for curriculum change. But what leaching thinking involves and how it can best be done are still open to question. The variety of teaching thinking programmes might be criticised as a confusion of educational aims and curriculum agendas. This article considers some of the problems and major questions of principle which need to be addressed if we are to clarify some of this confusion.