Using Reflective Thinking Skills for Education Quality Improvement in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper focused on using reflective thinking skills for education quality improvement in Nigeria.  Education was considered in this paper as a process of learning that assists in the provision of suitable skills, training the youths for economic, social cultural and political responsibilities in transmission and transformation of social, economic, and cultural structure from generation to generation.  The term quality was opined as the determination of gradations based on standard of excellence beneath which a mark of inferiority is imposed or adduced and above which grades of superiority are defined.  Reflective thinking involves personal consideration of one's own personal achievements and failures and asks what worked, what didn't and what needs improvement.  Reflective thinking is most important in prompting learning at a time of complex solving situations due to the fact that it avails the opportunity to go backwards and think about how they actually to solve problems and how a particular set of problem solving strategies is appreciated for achieving their goals.  In fact reflective thinking is a Part of the critical thinking process of analyzing, evaluating, and making judgment about what has happened.  It is the recommendation of this paper that the teachers should be involved in facilitating the development of reflective thinking in students.

Keywords: Education, Reflective thinking, Quality improvement, Thinking skills