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Development of Critical Thinking through Undergraduate Architectural Training

Ayushi Chakma, Bani Kaur

Abstract


Critical reasoning is an elementary tool for doing well in all walks of life today. It is gaining importance in a time of constantly evolving work profiles, multicontextual problems scenarios and in living a more aware life- unplagued by sociocentrism and egocentrism. A research conducted by James Flynn across different specialisation domains at one of America’s top universities concluded that ‘there is no sign that any department attempts to develop anything other than narrow critical competence.” (Epstein, 2019) when appraising critical thinking skills. This paper explores the results of graduate architectural training on development of said critical reasoning abilities, since architecture is a field rife with course content from a highly varying range of subjects- from economics to structural mechanic to history and colour theory, it gives a student exposure to a diversified train of thought It helps overcome the biases and prejudices inherent in any specialisation and develops critical thinking abilities despite a rigorous single-focused training. This paper aims to test this theory.


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