Abstract
Higher learning must promote the articulation between theory and professional practice, as well as develop critical thinking for problem solving and decision-making. Such objectives need adequate teaching strategies that lead to autonomy, metacognition, and self-regulation by the students. Thus, this study presents a report on the experience of using problem-solving methodologies structured on the stages of critical thinking with students enrolled in the Education Psychology discipline in a graduation course on Biological Sciences. The study was developed in three phases (argument analysis, problem explanation, and decision making) and obtained good acceptance and evaluation by the involved students. Besides being a learning strategy for these students, such experience constitutes a model to be reproduced in their teaching practice.
Keywords:
Problem solution; critical thinking; teacher formation