The Critical Thinking Education for Development of Creativity in Engineering Students: Focusing on Critical Writing about the Film "Bowling for Columbine"

공학도의 창의성 계발을 위한 비판적 사고 교육: 영화 《볼링 포 콜럼바인》에 대한 비판적 글쓰기를 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to clarify that critical writing can be a positive stimulus factor for the cultivation of critical thinking through actual cases of writing education targeting engineering students in universities. Critical writing education is a very important way to develop critical thinking necessary for acquiring scientific knowledge, sharing social values, creativity and cultivating new production capacity. Especially, when critical writing education is performed with materials that maintain critical view of social reality such as the movie "Bowling for Columbine", it is characterized by the fact that it is naturally combined with the dimension of engineering ethics faced by engineers from the analysis and judgment of social reality. This is an example of the fact that critical thinking education for engineering students does not necessarily meet their major areas.