Transcript Critical Thinking: de Bono’s 6-Hats

Critical Thinking:
de Bono’s 6-Hat strategy
Specific Lesson: The 21st
Century demands these
sorts of critical thinking
skills more than ever
before
“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be
those who can't read or write, but those who
can't learn, unlearn and relearn” John Toffler
Six-Hats Technique
So how are we going to
develop our critical
thinking skills in this
PSHCE unit?
• Many major international organisations use this technique for problem
solving.
• Each ‘hat’ represents a completely different way of thinking
• In groups we will ask members to ‘put on’ different hats in a sequence to aid
the problem solving process
• This can help overcome the problem of each group member adopting random
positions at random times
• It also permits us to control people who insist of sticking to one perspective we can ask them to assume a different hat
Edward de Bono
What is the background
to this approach?
Edward de Bono has written 56 books with translations in
34 languages. He was born in Malta, won a scholarship to
Oxford University and has worked at the Universities of
Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard.
Dr de Bono is the originator of the term 'lateral thinking'
which now has an official entry in the Oxford English
Dictionary. He is regarded as the leading international
authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
Six-Hats Technique