Dezvoltarea competențelor de gândire critică în contextul provocărilor societății digitale

• Published in: Drepturile Omului
• Main Author: Alina-Monica Bărăian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului 2025-07-01
• Subjects: digital society; socio-civic skills; critical thinking; post-truth; image and text; identity and community
• Online Access: https://revista.irdo.ro/pdf/2025/revista_1_2025/02_Alina_Baraian.pdf
• ISSN: 1220-613X; 2668-9499

This study investigates possible openings, from the perspective of the educational approach of training and development of critical thinking, starting from the assumption that the digital society is definable by the risks of promoting pseudoscience and perpetuating violent messages, of a selfish individualism that generates identity crises, both individual and collective, and on the other hand, the tools offered by the digital society and AI help to preserve and perpetuate values and, therefore, open pedagogical possibilities to overcome the post-truth era, but also the one in which the image surpasses the text. However, the responsibility for the younger generational cohorts, both in terms of formal and non-formal education, largely falls on teachers who teach social and human sciences, who can structurally and through training provide normative models of behavior and benchmarks in the formation of social and civic attitudes and critical thinking, ensuring their transmission through both rational and emotional mechanisms. The use of advanced digital technologies can be an asset, especially when they are doubled by creativity and versatility in the use of different methods targeted at the specific adaptive needs of the actors of the digital society.