Abstract:

In this paper, we present the results of a research on the development of students’ metacognition who are enrolled in the Bachelor - Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education program, with the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, at "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. The reasons for choosing this research theme are multiple. Firstly, as professionals involved in education, we are interested in achieving higher levels of learning, in depth learning, including training and development of metacognitive strategies. Secondly the study program specific to the psychological and pedagogical studies it is indirectly considered, whose curriculum includes disciplines that address and debate metacognition issues, as an important component of the complex process of learning. Students of this learning program have as future task, as trainers of young generations of students, the role of developing students’ metacognitive strategies, which are extremely important in the development of their intellectual and in achieving a balance between education and training. We also intend to develop a larger study that give a larger space to this subject, which is of particular importance and topical. What's new in learning pedagogy is that metacognitive development strategies can be taught and then learnt by pupils and students. It falls into the teachers’ mission to forward students the value of training and development of metacognitive strategies, which can lead to a level of deep learning, which is superior to superficial learning. In this way certain skills can be developed in order to help pupils and students adapt to new learning and training contexts.

Keywords:

Metacognitive strategies, deep learning, intellectual development, adaptation, training.