Critical thinking and integrated programs. The problem of transferability

Since 1980, when critical thinking becomes an important chapter in education, the modern perspective on critical thinking includes the issue of transferability of critical and argumentation skills. We developed an experimental design aiming at setting some light on the problem of transferable critical thinking skills. The subjects selected were students, so our research was concentrating on transferability and critical thinking skills development using integrated programs in Romanian higher education. We concluded that critical thinking skills are a complex psychological reality with different components and it is not possible that they automatically transfer to another area, once formed in a domain, and also that the integrated educational program is better than the non-integrated, lecture type, when the transfer to everyday life of critical thinking skills comes in discussion