how does metacognition develop?
Piaget called thinking about thinking ‘reflective abstraction’, and said that this develops in children through their growing awareness of different viewpoints and the experience of self-conflict when their understanding is challenged. The years from 4 to 9 see significant developments in children in their growing awareness of themselves as thinkers and learners. An illustration of this is provided by Istomina (1982) in studying the ways children of different ages set about a shopping task using a class shop. The 4 year olds ran impusively back and forth ‘buying’ things on their oral list, the 5 and 6 year olds tried to memorize what they had been told by asking for it to be repeated, the 7 year olds tried to make some logical connections between items on their lists. Metacognitive development in individual children varies widely. Poor learners show marked delays in metacognitive devlopment (Campione 1987, Watson 1996). They have the metacognitive awareness of much younger children, th
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