Abstract

RAMIREZ CUBAS, Mariel Enrique; CONDORI MACHACA, Juan Enrique; CANARI MARTICORENA, Hugo Fernando  and  SOLIS TRUJILLO, Beymar Pedro. Developing critical thinking in elementary school students. Systematic review. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2025, vol.9, n.40, pp.734-752.  Epub Oct 03, 2025. ISSN 2616-7964.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistahorizontes.v9i40.1172.

This study addresses the importance of fostering critical thinking in basic education due to technological changes and advances, highlighting the need to implement transversal competence in the educational system to form critical and democratic citizens. The objective is to analyze the results and collections of previous investigations on critical thinking in basic education students. A systematic review methodology was used, with the analysis of 20 articles from Scopus, Scielo and Ebsco databases, using the PRISMA 2020 method. The results show that critical thinking is developed using active methodologies, however, there are limitations to promoting the PC, such as the lack of teaching and updating the persistence of traditional methods. Concluding that there is an urgent need for changes in basic education to develop students' abilities to infer, analyze and argue, so that they can face technological challenges and have active participation in society.

Keywords : Critical; Develop; Thought; Reflective.

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