@article{oai:fukuoka-pu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000458,
 author = {Stuart, GALE and Stuart, GALE},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {福岡県立大学人間社会学部紀要},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {Whatever the veracity of the claim that East Asian students are deficient in critical thinking (CT) due to its incompatibility with Confucianism, it is incontrovertibly true that they do not typically conform to the modes of execution and expression that have emerged as the global standard. This has placed East Asian graduates at a disadvantage in the global marketplace and induced the Japanese government to redress a perceived CT deficit―an objective that implies a profound pedagogic shift away from rote learning and towards active learning and the development of higher order thinking skills. This paper aims to facilitate this shift by distilling a set of guiding principles through which to devise a contextually-appropriate methodology for the practice of CT and its expression. The paper also examines the sociocultural ramifications of a more CT-inflected Japanese education system and the assumption that it will be counteracted by a more prescriptive form of moral education. Future research will test each of the individual guiding principles set out by this paper in terms of its ability to inform a CT-facilitative methodology. Future commentaries, meanwhile, will presumably focus upon the Japanese government’s attempts to limit the fallout as it moves to imbue its populace with the ability to hold state-sponsored patriotism and other facets of Japan’s socially conservative value system to critical account.},
 pages = {17--43},
 title = {Putting the critical cat among the patriotic pigeons: guiding principles for the teaching of critical thinking as a precursor to critical writing in the Japanese EFL classroom},
 volume = {27},
 year = {2019}
}