Lectura crítica y aprendizaje significativo en la educación universitaria/Critical reading and significant learning in the university education

Abstract

The training of critical citizens has now positioned itself as a competence of university. This has been due fundamentally to the fact that this scenario represents the place par excellence in which free thought and the use of criticality are promoted as necessary intellectual abilities to face manipulations, objecting positions and fighting against ideological impositions. To consider with this essay, a review on the importance of developing critical reading skills in the college so that the students can interpret texts, recreate them, and develop the reading competence that will allow them to not only comprehend and infer the meanings from the contexts but also exhibit an inquisitive, critical attitude and significant learning. It is concluded that academic benefits of reading, as well as critical thinking are crucial in higher education, especially for the optimal professional development of students in the knowledge era; thus reading and critical thinking are necessary skills to face the challenges students will have in a globalized world.