Critical Thinking Workshop

An IQAC approved two-day Workshop on Critical Thinking was organized for the M.A and M.Com students of the final semester by the Research and Publication Cell, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, in collaboration with Critical Thinking Academy, Bangalore on 21st and 22nd February 2020. The Workshop was conducted by Mr. A.S. Prasad from Critical Thinking Academy, Bangalore. With over thirty years of experience in Marketing and Management, Mr. Prasad is a trainer in Critical Thinking and a Guest Faculty at IIM Indore and NIFT. He has developed a curriculum for a course on Critical Thinking for NIFT Bangalore and also teaches the course there. Spanning across six hours each day, the Workshop was held in the second floor auditorium of the College. The aim of the Workshop was to enhance employability skills amongst the students by introducing them to the process of informed decision- making based on critical thinking and analyses of situations. The sessions were divided into introduction of critical thinking framework, logical reasoning, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning and mapping of arguments. Each participant was issued with written material of 130 pages, including parameters of critical thinking and case studies. The sessions on both the days saw active participation from students through engaging interactive sessions with the trainer. The Workshop was immensely successful as more than eighty students from both the courses registered for it. The participants were issued certificates by the Research and Publication Cell and a feedback form was collected to record their experience of the Workshop.