Understanding and Nurturing Chinese Engineering Students’ Critical Thinking in U.S. Universities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210121.059How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical thinking, International students, Engineering education

Abstract

While it is widely believed that critical thinking is one of the most important goals in higher education for Western universities, there are discussions on whether such goal equally apply to international students, and students of different majors. Specifically, Chinese students in engineering major is widely depicted as a group of students that “lack critical thinking” in Western universities. In this project, 12 U.S. faculty and 12 Chinese undergraduate students were interviewed for their experiences teaching and learning in U.S. universities. It reveals that there is a great deal of variety among Chinese engineering students’ for their purpose of studying engineering and understanding “critical thinking”. Thus, they deserve to be given more attention and understanding their experiences is in need in engineering.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Chen
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/23
TI  - Understanding and Nurturing Chinese Engineering Students’ Critical Thinking in U.S. Universities
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 281
EP  - 285
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.059
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.059
ID  - Chen2021
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