Here’s a practice that might help: “why do I think that” monologues. This would be a group but not oppositional activity. The idea is to elaborate on a thing you currently believe to be true by specifying the reasons you believe it, the reasons you believe the reasons, etc and trying to dig out the whole epistemological structure. The purpose of this is not so much to tear apart someone else’s epistemological structure (it wouldn’t work, nobody learns from that), but rather to learn to see for yourself the points of divergence—which might be far, far upstream of an individual idea.
Making thinking visible, by your suggested “why do I actually think that” monologs, would also help with transfer of useful evidence-gathering or reasoning tricks, so that if e.g. you and I are talking, and you did something useful that I don’t know how to do in coming to a particular conclusion, I can see how it worked and maybe copy your trick in general.
I know math/science tutoring works better when people spell out more of their thinking than is common.
Here’s a practice that might help: “why do I think that” monologues. This would be a group but not oppositional activity. The idea is to elaborate on a thing you currently believe to be true by specifying the reasons you believe it, the reasons you believe the reasons, etc and trying to dig out the whole epistemological structure. The purpose of this is not so much to tear apart someone else’s epistemological structure (it wouldn’t work, nobody learns from that), but rather to learn to see for yourself the points of divergence—which might be far, far upstream of an individual idea.
Good idea.
Making thinking visible, by your suggested “why do I actually think that” monologs, would also help with transfer of useful evidence-gathering or reasoning tricks, so that if e.g. you and I are talking, and you did something useful that I don’t know how to do in coming to a particular conclusion, I can see how it worked and maybe copy your trick in general.
I know math/science tutoring works better when people spell out more of their thinking than is common.