Vol. 5 (04) pp. 902-906 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3893

CRITICAL THINKING: IMPERATIVE IN INFORMATION BASED SOCIETY.

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  • Supervisor and Ex-Head, Department of Education, University of Allahabad.
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Abstract

Humans are social beings and regarded as the primates for social qualities. Society precedes the individual by making adept at utilizing communication system for self-expression. It has been thought that the power of the societies is the result of different sources. One of them is information. Presently our society is the information based society where education is perceived as learning of the life style on individual, organizational and social bases. Now information becomes a strategic resource. Today, the basic principles of life are changed and learning is redefined as strategy to manage the future and to build new ideas which make the difference in social, organizational and individual life. In fact, information based society requires critical thinking in its individuals. Thus the paper attempts to provide a rationale for the role of Critical thinking as an imperative aspect in information based society. This study represents how Critical thinking is imperative in information based society where information is in bulk from all the directions and every person is exposed but they have to know which information is to accept or reject and how to convert information into knowledge. Further the significance of teaching practices to initiate the decision making abilities on part of the individual is also discussed.

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How to Cite This Article

Kuldeep Kaur and Pratibha Upadhyay (2017); CRITICAL THINKING: IMPERATIVE IN INFORMATION BASED SOCIETY., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (04), 902-906, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3893

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Kuldeep Kaur
Research Scholar, Department of Education, University of Allahabad
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