The Role of Children's Forums as a Means of Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Children

Abstract

The current condition of Indonesian education is experiencing paralysis in terms of critical thinking, because the critical thinking ability in children in Indonesia has not been stimulated optimally. Lack of opportunities for children to develop their critical thinking skills, because the learning process is still teacher-centered so that children are not given the opportunity to speak. The Children's Forum is an organization that is a forum for children's participation that supports the active role of children, its goal is to channel children's aspirations, opinions and participation in various aspects of life.  This research method uses the SLR (Systematic Literature Review) approach. Data were collected by documenting related articles from similar studies. A total of 5 national journal articles were selected from Google Scholar in the last 10 years to be used in this study. The results of the study found that the role of the Children's Forum is very important in creating a young generation that thinks critically, innovatively and is able to adapt to existing changes. not only to develop critical thinking skills in children, but children's forums also aim to promote the values of democracy, tolerance and cooperation in community life.