IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEARNING: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
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Practicing critical thinking skills from elementary school onward helps students go beyond memorizing information to analyzing, questioning, and deeply understanding lesson concepts. Through interactive and contextual learning methods and models, teachers can stimulate elementary school students' curiosity and encourage them to solve everyday problems logically and creatively. This study aims to analyze the implementation of learning strategies in improving the critical thinking skills of elementary school students through a systematic literature review. The method in this research is SLR (systematic literature review). There are inclusion and exclusion criteria in sorting articles to be taken in this research. This aims to ensure that only articles that are in accordance with the research topic can be analyzed. There are several implementations that can be done in the learning process to improve students' critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills of students in elementary schools can be improved through interactive learning models and methods
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