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Introduction:

In this essay, I will critically discuss the statement of worldviews is essential for critical thinking in terms of learning at university. I will use my own experiences, Northedge, Bizzell, Hobson and Weston’s readings, as well as Veitch, Christensen and Thompson’s lectures to support my thesis and main points, in terms of my life and experiences learning at university in a diverse culture. The thesis of my essay is we, as students, need to have our own worldview and learn to gain knowledge through our life experiences within the culture, as well as deeply engage and assimilate with the knowledge or things we learn at university, by applying critical thinking to recognise our situatedness as academic within the university. The main points that I will outline in this essay are the worldviews that I have already had and the experiences that I have encountered in a diverse culture with the worldview which is completely different from mine, and then, I will explain on how these processes have shaped me in becoming a pro-active learner at university.

Before I critically discuss my composition, I would like to classify worldviews in three stages, and each of these stages reveals the worldviews that I have in my everyday and academic life and experiences, which are essential for critical thinking. They are cultural differences, my situated self within the culture and the process of becoming a learner at university.

Main Point 1:

Firstly, the primary worldview that I would like to expand in this paragraph is the worldview that I have already acquired and the experiences that I have encountered in a diverse culture with completely different worldview at university. In my opinion, worldview is the concept of what ...

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...e, as students, need to have our own worldview and learn to gain knowledge through our life experiences within the culture, as well as deeply engage and assimilate with the knowledge or things we learn at university and in everyday life, by applying critical thinking to recognise our situatedness as academic within the university. I have clearly discussed the worldviews that I have and the experiences that I have encountered in a diverse culture, which has a completely different worldview than mine, and then, I have explained these processes of how they have shaped me in becoming a pro-active learner at university. In my opinion, students are essential to have their worldviews when they move from a different cultural background into a new diverse culture, and learn to acquire a new worldview and apply critical thinking to become pro-active learners at university.

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