Section 1. The importance of developing critical thinking skills in pre-service teachers. Chapter 1. Critical thinking in teacher education: learning to teach in practical settings ; Chapter 2. Critical thinking for practice: supporting pre-service teachers during student teaching ; Chapter 3. How mentorship, critical thinking, and self-efficacy impact pre-service teachers and teacher educators in P-12 and higher education ; Chapter 4. Cooperative discussions for critical thinking: protocols for the pre-service classroom ; Chapter 5. Team-based learning: an instructional approach to facilitate critical thinking in teacher preparation ; Chapter 6. Developing critical dispositions in teacher education programs -- Section 2. Using reflection to build critical thinking skills. Chapter 7. Developing critical thinking and reflection in teachers within teacher preparation ; Chapter 8. Developing pre-service teachers' critical thinking and assessment skills with reflective writing ; Chapter 9. Metacognition: importance of reflection in the pre-service teacher journey ; Chapter 10. Relational action research on preservice teachers' reflective thinking and knowledge co-creation ; Chapter 11. Supporting teacher candidates' development of critical thinking skills through dialogue and reflection -- Section 3. Developing critical thinking skills through language and writing. Chapter 12. Positioning teacher candidates as self-regulated, critically thinking learners and teachers in an elementary writing course with a tutoring component ; Chapter 13. Fostering critical literacy and cosmopolitanism: research on the influence of discussion strategies ; Chapter 14. A new generation of teachers: a case for critical thinking and linguistic knowledge ; Chapter 15. Critical ways of thinking and learning: pre-service teachers' exploration through text ; Chapter 16. Critical thinking, critical doing: instructional routines for critical, embodied thinking in preservice literacy education coursework ; Chapter 17. Preservice teachers' development and application of critical thinking skills in a social studies methods course -- Section 4. Using mathematics as a tool to build critical thinking skills. Chapter 18. Redesigning mathematics tasks: a tool to increase critical thinking skills ; Chapter 19. Complexity of (re)learning the meaning of multiplication of fractions in the context of a mathematics content course: an exploration study ; Chapter 20. Transmitting metacognitive pedagogy to math pre-service educators -- Section 5. Developing critical thinking skills through research and exploration. Chapter 21. Promoting critical thinking through the use of student-generated case studies ; Chapter 22. Using primary research literature to teach critical thinking in pre-service teacher education ; Chapter 23. Encouraging preservice teachers' critical thinking development through practitioner inquiry ; Chapter 24. Critical thinking in collaborative video annotations: relationships between criticism and higher order thinking -- Section 6. Improving critical thinking skills in pre-service teacher education programs. Chapter 25. Creating disequilibrium: building confidence in pre-service teachers using critically engaging constructivist methods ; Chapter 26. Integrating critical pedagogy with teaching statistics for social justice ; Chapter 27. Creating a more thoughtful and compassionate schooling experience: implementing philosophy for children hawai'i in our teacher education programs.