Meta-cognitive Skill Training by Serializing Self-Dialogue and Discussion Processes

Abstract

The authors hold the opinion that to acquire a skill for co-creating knowledge with others cooperatively, development of meta-cognitive skill is important, but to do so is not straightforward. Herein, we attempt to design thinking skill (particularly meta cognitive skill) development curriculum for first year bachelor students based on the results obtained by two preceding studies we have performed so far for postgraduate education and those engaged with medical services. To deal effectively with new learning for first year bachelor students---"Thinking about thinking"---we designed a curriculum by which students are given knowledge co-creation program and thinking externally tool to devote attention to thinking process and to have bodily sensation of its meaning, and put it into practice. This paper describes learning model for thinking skill which is fundamental to appropriate curriculum designing and discusses design intent of the curriculum conforming to it and usefulness of the learning program through examples of practice using thinking externally tool. Results show that the learning program developed in this study is useful for cultivating meta-cognitive skill of bachelor students.