Teachers’ training on critical thinking teaching strategies: the CRITHINKEDU experience

Nowadays, Critical Thinking (CT) education is of crucial importance for universities in the preparation of students in every field of study. The present article describes the state of the art of lecturing training experience in general and in more specific scenarios, such as training at the Department of Education of Roma Tre University (IT). Furthermore, using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, we report the experience of the design and conception of a training course on the quality assurance criteria when delivering CT teaching as part of the activities of the EU funded “Critical thinking across European higher education curricula – CRITHINKEDU” project. Within the module, each project partner institution was engaged in several activities to implement active strategies addressed to CT skills teaching. Obtained results from the training and learning activity conducted in the module are finally discussed.