Since 2010, Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) has been organizing Critical Thinking Schools (CrTS) as part of its programs. The main objective of the CrTS is to enhance participants’ critical thinking and analysis skills through learning about the differences between thinking and critical thinking; complemented by activities such as text analysis, data verification, identifying fake news and misinformation, and decoding propaganda messages. As different from media literacy trainings, these Schools focus on the intentions contained in texts, and the power relations that are expressed through those texts. It is not always possible to check the veracity of miscellaneous information; also, power manipulations are attempted not only in-and-by news media, but also in opinion pieces, as well as other texts, social media posts, books, textbooks, films, podcasts, etc.
