Critical Thinking in Basic Education Students: An Inventive Analysis

Abstract

This documentary review work is aimed at examining the approach to critical thinking in basic education students, in order to determine how studies have been approached to improve that thinking, published in currently indexed scientific journals in the most prestigious databases, indicating the work characteristics to be included or excluded, the type of methodological design, the type of study, the year of publication and the results obtained, it is necessary to indicate that this competence has been left to abandonment as there are no mechanisms of curriculum progression that guarantee their progress within educational programmes; in this sense, from the initial stage students should be promoted the ability to acquire autonomous learning, collaborative teamwork, to promote the skills of analysis and problem solving, but based on pre-established criteria that involve the need for critical and constructive judgment.