Transformational Education: learning for life

This has culminated in the development of a critical thinking skills framework and toolkit designed to inform learning, teaching and assessment practice.

Our transformative educational endeavours are illustrated in three posters. Collectively these highlight our approach to developing student’s self-efficacy to master critical thinking and explore the challenges faced in leading students through ‘conceptual gateways’ to a more accessible way of thinking about information (Meyer and Land, 2005). Our key message is that to overcome such challenges we must as educators firstly transform ourselves by revising our own personal assumptions about learning and embrace a reflective and evidence-based exploration of our own methods of practice, expectations of ourselves and of our students.