How to facilitate for value-loaded critical thinking?

To critically investigate values and value judgments is considered an important citizenship skill (Veugelers & Vedder, 2003), and Floor Rombout believes that students typically learn and practice value-loaded critical thinking when they participate in a philosophical inquiry. For that reason, she has analyzed philosophical inquiries of five different teachers in their high school philosophy classes, in order to assess the amount and quality of value-loaded critical thinking in these inquiries. In addition, she will identify various ways in which teachers can give rise to critical examination of values. Together we will explore the concept of value-loaded critical thinking and the way in which we can facilitate inquiries aimed at developing value-loaded critical thinking of our students.