Multigenre Author Autobiography & Multimodal Self-Portrait: The Role of Art Integration In Transforming Complex and Critical Thinking In University and Secondary English/Language Arts Classrooms

Abstract

Critical thinking is a concept widely used to describe how students should learn to think, as well as an instructional goal for teachers throughout the educational journey. With these assertions about critical thinking in mind, we set out to explore and implement critical thinking as a construct with specific critical attributes that serve as qualifiers of its construction, and a process adolescents and secondary teachers must traverse on the path of literacy development. Additionally, we focused on the role art integration could play when designing and facilitating critical thinking engagements in two high school and one university English/language arts classrooms.