1st Edition

Metacognition and Education: Future Trends

Edited By Shirley Larkin Copyright 2024
222 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Metacognition is crucial to education in a changing world. The role of mobile applications, AI and global issues such as climate change make the need for developing learners with the ability to monitor and control their own thinking increasingly necessary. Metacognitive learners are learners who can draw on their own knowledge of their own thinking processes to optimise the conditions under which... Read more

Introduction
Shirley Larkin

1. Understanding the role of mind wandering and mindfulness in creativity
David D. Preiss and Benjamín Carmona

2. Who are the students in metacognition research in high school science education? Reflections on ecological validity, representative design, and generalizability
Gregory P. Thomas

3. Teachers’ professional competence to support metacognition
Charlotte Dignath and Yves Karlen

4. Are students who use the internet to assist with assignments prone to metacognitive overestimations?
Stephanie Pieschl , Janene Budd , and Björn Mattes

5. The effect of metacognitive use of learning strategies on student test performance
Eriko Ota, Emmanuel Manalo and Natalia Suárez Fernández

6. Metacognition and self-regulated learning in manipulative robotic problem-solving task
Margarida Romero and George Kalmpourtzis

7. The role of automatic and analytic processes on mathematics performance: cognitive inhibition and metacognition
Fatma Acar and Emine Erktin

8. Supporting metacognitive and cognitive processes during self-study through mobile learning
Martine Baars and Olga Viberg

9. Teacher metacognition: Is there a role for personal construct psychology?
Shirley Larkin

10. Mindfulness as metacognition: Implications for research and practice in education
Tomasz Jankowski

Biography

Shirley Larkin is associate professor of education psychology in the School of Education, University of Exeter, UK. She researches the development and facilitation of metacognition across the life course, but with a specific focus on early years and primary education.