Cognitive facilitation: a method for promoting reflective collaboration
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چکیده
We introduce a method for promoting reflective conversations during collaborative work which enables participants to explore their cognitive goals and processes and thereby develop a metacognitive understanding of their practice. This method, termed "cognitive facilitation," seeks to provide a conceptual and linguistic basis for metacognitive reflection by "seeding" conversations with a cognitive vocabulary that is carefully chosen to promote the collaborative inspection of cognitive activity. We illustrate the usefulness of cognitive facilitation in two situations: middle-school students designing and carrying out scientific inquiry projects, and apprentice teachers seeking to understand inquiry-oriented science teaching through analyzing videotapes of classrooms. Keywords—metacognition, collaborative learning, inquiry, science teaching
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