META COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENT: NEED OF 21STCENTURY

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META COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENT: NEED OF 21STCENTURY

Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2

Abstract

“Although thinking is innate, skillful thinking must be cultivated.” (Art Costa) The structures and functionality of our society is rapidly changing with the development of technology and we find that in today’s context many skills and values of the past are no longer relevant. The students of our society must be prepared for accepting the challenges of multidimensional domains. It is the primary job of the educator to ensure that the art of thinking is being valued, encouraged, and challenged in the classroom The ability of interpersonal and intrapersonal management of learning tasks involves a constant process of self-evaluation and modification in both the cognitive process and learning outcomes. So It is the utmost demand of the 21st century workforce to produce innovative, motivated, technically skilled critical thinkers who can both recognize problems and find solutions and give further suggestions along with educational implications. The ability to think about one's thinking is what neuroscientists call metacognition. Metacognition is the process of thinking that represents productive thoughts of the convergent, divergent and evaluative thinking. It may be defined as having knowledge of one’s own different intellectual operations. Strategies are the techniques employed to foster development of learning skills. Both traditional metacognitive strategies and those that have been developed and researched lays emphasis on offering different ways of helping students to use technology based on metacognition as a learning tool. It is important to remember that each student has unique creative intelligence thus, every effort should be grasped to select and adapt strategies to each individual’s abilities, learning styles, and learning preference. In this rapidly changing world, the challenge of teaching is to help students develop those skills and values that will not become obsolete in future. For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, caste, class, tradition, religion, language etc. and every influence we can think of and therefore our responses to every problem are conditioned. A metacognitive environment inculcate higher order thinking skills to emphasize critical thinking in removing the influences of responses that are already conditioned. Planning and organizing of metacognitive skills must be shared between teachers and students so that metacognitive environment could be created. In the metacognitive environment teachers monitor and apply their knowledge and deliberately modeling metacognitive behavior to assist students in becoming aware of their own thinking. Use of Metacognitive strategies in teaching learning process is essential for the twenty first century because these strategies may enable the students to cope successfully with new challenges of the modern world. This study assumes greater significance of using metacognitive skills in achieving constructive learning.

Authors and Affiliations

POONAM SHARMA, NISHA MISHRA

Keywords

Metacognition Metacognitive Strategies and Metacognitive Environment

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