What is critical spirit? What does it look like?

•  Independent learners who think for themselves and are open to new ideas
•  Developing happiness, confidence, security
•  Sharing ideas, thoughts and feelings
•  Deep thinking and exploring
•  Questioning, discriminating, inquiring
•  Trusting your own instincts, opinions, reactions and beliefs
•  Analysing – Why? How? What?
•  Analysing validity of source
•  Thinking for yourself
•  Gaining depth of meaning
•  A thirst for knowledge
•  Challenging, debating, justifying
•  Perseverance
•  Experimenting
•  Modelling of process
•  Editing, re-working, planning, evaluating, reflecting, synthesising
•  Taking risks
•  Setting goals
•  Creating