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Scenario

When international research teams struggle to define universal standards for critical thinking

My research group includes scholars from six different countries and we're supposed to be developing cross-cultural assessment tools, but every time we try to establish shared criteria for what counts as good reasoning, we end up in these polite but intractable disagreements about fundamental assumptions. We're behind deadline and starting to avoid the hard conversations.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to intellectual rigor is confronting the possibility that rigor itself may be culturally constructed, paralyzing their ability to make collaborative judgments.

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“Where Are You with Critical thinking across cultures?”

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