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<h3>CYANOTYPES Learning Plan: Unpacking Your Cluster Competences</h3>
<p><em>Cluster Name: Collective Agency Cluster</em></p>
<p><em>Competence Name: Conceptual and Critical Thinking</em></p>
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<p>Nominal Workload to Scope This Content: 50-60 hours (2 ECTS)</p>
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<p>Conceptual and critical thinking is the practice of making sense of the world by engaging with ideas, patterns, contradictions, and the underlying structures that shape what we know, feel, and create. It is not about having the right answers, but about developing the capacity to question, reflect, and imagine otherwise. At its core, this kind of thinking involves: Abstraction and synthesis — identifying broader concepts from specific experiences. Self-reflection — understanding how our own positions, perceptions, and assumptions shape what and how we know. Contextual awareness — situating knowledge within social, historical, and political frameworks. Responsiveness — being attuned to change, contradiction, and the unknown</p>
<p>Historically, conceptual and critical thinking has emerged in many global traditions — not just through Western philosophy. It appears in the oral reasoning practices of Indigenous communities, the poetic and political thinking of resistance movements, and in the creative labor of artists working at the margins. From John Dewey’s pragmatism and education as experience, to Jacques Rancière’s vision of intellectual emancipation, and from Black feminist thought to postcolonial critique, conceptual and critical thinking is a practice of emancipation — one that equips learners to see complexity, resist simplification, and generate new forms of understanding. It asks: <em>How do we know what we know? What shapes our thinking? And what might it mean to think otherwise — together?</em></p>
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