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This paper explores what comprises critical thinking and how to prepare and motivate young children to be active critical thinkers in a multicultural society. Critical thinking consists of cognitive reasoning as well as intellectual traits. A controversial issue is whether intellectual traits should be included in the definition of critical thinking. Since our pedagogical approaches to critical thinking have exclusively focused on cognitive reasoning, it is necessary to explore a new form of critical thinking that integrates intellectual traits. This paper presents an integrated form of critical thinking from the perspective of reasonableness (Burbules, 1995). Reasonableness is a modified version of rationality that determines whether a particular viewpoint or action is reasonable within a certain situation, and is an alternative approach in the development of critical thinking. This paper exemplifies how these ideas can be applied to education.
