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Reading and Book Criticism as Learning Tools for Building 21st-Century Skills

This scholarly article integrates deep reading and book reviewing as a framework for practising summarisation, critical analysis, reflection, communication, information literacy and self-directed learning in higher education.

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Key findings

  • Self-evaluation indicated the highest perceived benefit for the course and a high overall benefit for twenty-first-century skills. These are positive perceptions, not externally measured skill gains.
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Why this matters globally

The framework could be adapted in courses linking reading, writing and AI literacy, particularly with source verification, AI-output checking and transparent disclosure of tool use.

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Thai researcher contribution

Sitthirat Rungmee of Yala Rajabhat University authored the article, while the classroom illustration comes from a programme at Thaksin University, grounding the discussion in Thai higher education.

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Limitations to consider

This is a conceptual article without a fully reported systematic search, sample, instrument or statistical analysis. Self-report is vulnerable to bias and there is no comparator, so causal skill improvement from the activity or generative AI cannot be inferred.

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DOI: 10.64769/rdj.v30i1.286635

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