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From now on you can choose Danish indicators in Rationale. To do so, go the homepage of Rationale and select Dansk in the translations menu or choose Dansk in the menu at the bottom of your My maps.

Thanks to Jasper Witjes, lecturer at Niuernermik Ilinniarfik in Ninuuk, Greenland, who made the translation!

The Rationale Team

A good read:

' This article won't change your mind' from The Atlantic.

'The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs'.

Anybody that is looking for information to make the case for critical thinking in a curriculum within higher education should read this article of Martin Davies in the Conversation of November 22.

The article contains a lot of useful information and links.E.g.: ' A 2015 report by the Foundation for Young Australians claims demand for critical thinking skills in new graduates has risen 158% in three years. This data was drawn from an analysis of 4.2 million online job postings from 6,000 different sources in the period 2012-2015.'

A graph from The New Basic reports by the Foundation for Young Australians

Martin Davies has written some other interesting articles on critical thinking and critical thinking & argument mapping:

• Davies, W.M., In Defence of Generalisation: Moore on the Critcal Thinking Debate. (2004).
• Davies, W.M., ‘Not quite right’ : helping students to make better arguments. Teaching in Higher Education. Vol.13, No. 3, June 2008, 327-340.
• Davies, W.M., Concept Mapping, Mind Mapping and Argument Mapping: What are the differences and do they matter? 2007.