What are the measurable skills of critical thinking in young children? •Literature review: need for theoretical foundation long discussion around the review question. •Suggestion to examine some of the philosophy for education, STEAM education and other areas literature with a view to defining how we see critical thinking – what is critical thinking? what are the indicators of success for children in critical thinking (e.g. can they reason, explain)? Thinking of yourself as a teacher, how do I know whether or not these children are thinking critically – what skills can they exhibit. •After the review, the answer to the review question should be the desired outcome as the measurable skills of critical thinking in young children should be clearly identified. Sources: No specific number I would like to ask you to Record the Research please. 1.Write up the search methodology By providing details about the methods you used when searching, you should give enough detail for someone else to reproduce the same or similar results. Your search methodology should include: where you searched (e.g. database names) when you did your searches (e.g date viewed or retrieved) limits you applied to your searches (e.g. date ranges, language, document type, etc.) 2.Write up your search strategy Search strategies are often included as an appendix to a literature review and should give enough detail for someone else to reproduce the same or similar results. Your search strategy should include: how you searched (e.g. keywords and/or subjects) search terms used (e.g. words and phrases) search techniques used (e.g. nesting, truncation, etc.) how you combined searches (e.g. AND / OR / NOT) 3.Record your results You may want to record results for all of your searches – this may be included as part of your search methodology or search strategy. This will help you and your readers to determine how much information may already be available on a specific subject and/or how effective your search strategies were. Guidance on Writing this Chapter: This should explore the question/s you are raising through evaluating the work of previous research and policy, creating a context for the subsequent investigation. The literature sources should be up to date, but should not preclude older material that is pertinent. Your literature review should look critically at a range of sources, e.g. government documents, research reports, books and journal articles. Ensure you cover the key literature and consider the range of ideas and evidence about your particular topic. It is often useful to organise your review around 3 or 4 essential themes / debates and use these as section headings. The review should closely relate and contribute to your own research programme. It is useful to develop a personal ‘database’, using index cards or a suitable computer based system, on the available literature. Ensure that all details of work cited are complete, including the page number for any quotations. Whilst it can be appropriate to quote directly from source material, this technique should be used sparingly; it is usually better to paraphrase or draw out key issues so that you maintain control over the arguments presented. Beware of using the literature only to support your position and arguments; critical analysis is a crucial element of a good dissertation. For this reason it often works better stylistically to be as a transparent as possible about the origin of the work e.g. Lakoff and Johnson (2004) argue / propose / question ……