Critical Thinking and Information Skills: Binomial for the Training of Users in Upper Secondary Education in México.

Abstract

Educational systems (curriculum) and libraries play an important role in training information users, both in the classroom and in the spaces for documentary sources, especially in higher secondary education, because this academic level is considered by many students to be the degree that gives them the opportunity to build pre-adult skills, as well as being the academic background for entry into a higher education degree or the labour field. Because of this, there is interest in studying two fundamental themes that contribute directly to the processes of information literacy in adolescents: critical thinking and informational skills, which, for the case, are studied through a documentary research, first from the theoretical perspective and secondly in relation to higher secondary education (with particular focus on Mexico), identifying various possibilities for application and inferring different aspects that inhibit their achievement. The article concludes with some alternatives for improvement to achieve practical conditions of influence on training processes, as well as the limitations presented by the absence of macro-educational guidelines, but rather by the fact that they are merely non-systematic initiatives.