An Investigation of Critical Thinking as a Primary Goal of Education Case Study: Third Year Secondary School Pupils – Tiaret -

Abstract

Critical thinking is a skill that has become very important in education, educators and curriculum designers aspire to make it a primary goal. But they have to face penalties to achieve this goal. This research aims to study the development of critical thinking as a main objective in Algerian education systems. To achieve this, we designed a research based on a qualitative analysis methodology, and we took third-year EFL classes as a case study. We coordinated structured interviews with a number of teachers from different secondary schools. We made two types of observation ―naturalist and participant‖. We took three different classes with different flows to observe, each class with two sessions, the total number of students was 180 in order to verify the existence of a critical mind among the students.