Fostering Critical Thinking about Climate Change: Applying Community Psychology to an Environmental Education Project with Youth

Fostering Critical Thinking, Reasoning, and Argumentation Skills through Bioethics Education

Developing a position on a socio-scientific issue and defending it using a well-reasoned justification involves complex cognitive skills that are challenging to both teach and assess. Our work centers on instructional strategies for fostering critical thinking skills in high school students using bioethical case studies, decision-making frameworks, and structured analysis tools to scaffold stud...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'

Applying Systems Thinking to Aviation Psychology

Teaching About Climate Change in Medical Education: An Opportunity

Climate change threatens many of the gains in development and health over the last century. However, it could also be a catalyst for a necessary societal transformation to a sustainable and healthy future. Doctors have a crucial role in climate change mitigation and health system adaptation to prepare for emergent health threats and a carbon-constrained future. This paper argues that climate ch...

Thinking about an East Asian Community

The Japanese government has proposed the concept of an East Asian Community. Unfortunately however, up to this point no concrete policy has been established indicating how to proceed with efforts towards the establishment of such a community. The question of what types of economic relationships to establish with the other nations of East Asia1 has been a major issue for Japan. What types of rel...