An overview of critical methods

1. Critical Methods
Thinking ● Asking Questions ● Making Connections

2. Critical Thinking
What does it mean to think critically?

3. To think critically
means to analyze and
evaluate.
Notice the word choice here.
Why are we talking about what it means to think critically
rather than what critical thinking means?

5. To analyze means to…
To evaluate means to…

7. Asking questions is a
critical method.

8. What is this thing?
Who’s connected to this thing? What’s their
story?
What were the conditions that enabled this thing
to exist/be the way it is?
What other things might follow from this thing/be
a consequence of this thing?
What’s positive or problematic about this thing?

9. Critique is a process of
making connections.
- Norman Fairclough