Tag: critical thinking

Exactly two months have passed since the education authorities of North Macedonia have implemented the new Concept for the elementary education, which was heralded as the basis for the education reforms. The novelties planned in the document should improve the situation and follow the contemporary tendencies in education. After the system had underwent many changes in the past, with...

“Balkan history has been shaped by the territorial ambitions and disputes of the last century, and so has become a zero-sum game; it also has quasi-religious aspects, insofar as current debates reveal an implicit concern with purity and pollution underlying accusations around loyalty and betrayal. Grievances and disputes escalate; and (to pursue the game metaphor) there is no mechanism,...

In the period between the 28th of September and the 1st of October there will be a series of online public events for the presentation of local projects from the program "Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens - CriThink" in North Macedonia. These projects were supported by the EU via the Second cycle of small grants of CriThink in the...

Most young people have relatively good knowledge and make appropriate efforts to find out whether certain news or other media content contains misinformation, however, examinations into their ability to think logically and careful reading, show that only 1 out of 100 meet the criteria for such a matter. This was demonstrated by new research conducted through the "Critical Thinking for Citizens with...