ABSTRACT
Teaching thinking has a long history in China and most teaching thinking programmes are infusion approaches. The teaching thinking ideologies of educators in ancient China are the following (Hu & Liu, 2011). First, attaching great importance to the role of thinking and emphasizing thinking as the core of teaching. Second, paying attention to the accumulation of knowledge and clarifying the relationship between knowledge and thinking. Third, emphasizing the great importance of heuristics and advocating students’ active thinking. Fourth, encouraging questioning to develop students’ innovative thinking. Fifth, reinforcing the training of thinking methods to ensure students’ efficiency of thinking. Sixth, inspiring the non-intelligence factors, and then realizing the optimization of students’ thinking.
