Development of critical thinking based on reading comprehension basis of the teaching and learning process in lower secondary education

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of the critical thinking necessary in reading comprehension as a fundamental basis in the teaching and learning process of lower secondary education students. It is based on the postulates of Vygotsky, Bruner, Woods and Ross, Morin. Navarra (2020). Methodologically, it is circumscribed as documentary research, under the qualitative approach, where theoretical references from digital and printed sources related to the critical thinking indispensable in reading comprehension in the teaching and learning process were collected and analyzed. All this in the search to facilitate the teaching and learning process in such a way that creative and innovative methodologies can be implemented for the development of critical thinking based on reading comprehension as the essential starting point to build solid critical thinking, for the development of the capacity to deeply understand what is read.