Definitions

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1. **Deliberative -** ( Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2010 retrieved from [|www.merriam-webster.com] Main Entry: de·lib·er·a·tion Pronunciation: \di-ˌli-bə-ˈrā-shən\ Function: noun Date: 14th century 1 a : the act of deliberating b : a discussion and consideration by a group of persons (as a jury or legislature) of the reasons for and against a measure 2 : the quality or state of being deliberate — de·lib·er·a·tive \-ˈli-bə-ˌrā-tiv, -ˈli-b(ə-)rə-\ adjective — de·lib·er·a·tive·ly adverb — de·lib·er·a·tive·ness noun

2. **Critical thinking:** Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. ( [|more from www.criticalthinking.org])

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3. **Research skills**: [|Learners] [|ability] to undertake [|research], including strategies and tools which can be learnt. []

4. **Inquiry**: (Wikipedia, 2010, retrieved from [|en.wikipedia.org]

> is closely associated with the [|normative science] of [|logic]. In its inception, the pragmatic model or theory of > inquiry was extracted by Peirce from its raw materials in classical logic, with > a little bit of help from [|Kant], and refined in parallel with the early development > of symbolic logic by [|Boole], [|De Morgan], and Peirce himself to address > problems about the nature and conduct of scientific reasoning. Borrowing a brace > of concepts from [|Aristotle], Peirce > examined three fundamental modes of reasoning that play a role in inquiry, > commonly known as [|abductive], [|deductive], and [|inductive] [|inference].
 * In the pragmatic philosophies of [|Charles Sanders Peirce], [|William James], [|John Dewey], and others, inquiry