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My argument is that criticality can be distinguished through two axes: first, its levels, ranging from narrow operational skills to transformatory critique, and second, its scope, consisting of the three domains of formal knowledge, the self, and the world. In summary, my schema takes the form shown in table 3.1.
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Barnett, R. (2015). A Curriculum for Critical Being. In: Davies, M., Barnett, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378057_4
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