CRITICAL THINKING OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVITY AND APPLICATION
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https://doi.org/10.32782/2956-333X/2025-3-10Ключові слова:
application, creativity, critical thinking, practice, social work, theoryАнотація
Critical thinking is one of the basic skills for learning in the twenty-first century. It is deve-loped through practical application, in which creativity is also important. The paper focuses on connecting critical thinking with such dimensions as creativity and application. The aim of the quantitative research was to find out how respondents use critical thinking in the process of studying social work. The research sample consisted of 150 respondents – students studying in the field of social work at universities in Slovakia, of which 44 were men and 106 were women aged at bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels of study. The questions of the self-constructed questionnaire were directed to 6 areas, while the paper presents partial results from two of the areas studied, namely: creativity and application. A verbal, 5-point scaling was applied to evaluate opinions. The obtained and presented questionnaire research data declared the opinions of respondents, who expressed a relatively high level of critical thinking in the researched areas of creativity (Ø 1.6) and application (Ø 1.6).
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