Builiding A Model For The Causal Relationships Between The Dimensions Of Reflective Thinking, Wisdom And Teaching In A Critical Thinking Style Among A Sample Of Arabic Language Teachers In Al-Baha Region

Dekhikh, Saleh Ahmed Dekhikh

doi:10.21608/jsre.2022.131222.1459

Builiding A Model For The Causal Relationships Between The Dimensions Of Reflective Thinking, Wisdom And Teaching In A Critical Thinking Style Among A Sample Of Arabic Language Teachers In Al-Baha Region

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Saleh Ahmed Dekhikh Dekhikh

College of Education, University of Al Baha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

10.21608/jsre.2022.131222.1459

Abstract

The study aimed to build a model of the causal relationships between reflective thinking and wisdom in its sub-dimensions and teaching in a critical thinking style with its sub-dimensions, and to verify the suitability of this model to the data of the study sample, on a sample of Arabic language teachers in Al-Baha region, which amounted to (191) teachers of Arabic language in Al-Baha and Al-Makhwah regions, and the following tools have been applied: Measures of reflective thinking, wisdom and teaching in a critical thinking style prepared by (the researcher), and the results revealed that the proposed model for causal relationships between Reflective thinking and wisdom in its sub-dimensions and teaching in a critical thinking style with its sub-dimensions fits the data of the study sample. Also, there is no direct, statistically significant effect of reflective thinking in the sub-dimensions of teaching in a critical thinking style with its sub-dimensions, and there is a direct, positive, statistically significant effect of reflective thinking in making judgments, skills Life, life knowledge and understanding of others as sub-dimensions of wisdom, there is also a direct positive statistically significant effect of the sub-dimensions of wisdom In the sub-dimensions of teaching in a critical thinking style, there is also a positive, indirect, statistically significant effect of reflective thinking in the sub-dimensions of teaching in a critical thinking style across the sub-dimensions of wisdom.

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