METACOGNITION AND LEARNING TO LEARN

Abstract

The article talks about the driving force behind "learning to learn" is the so-called "metacognition". In other words, there is learning, but with it there is learning to learn. People are capable of thinking, but they are also capable of thinking about thinking. Thus there is knowledge, as well as the knowledge of knowledge. Metacognition refers to the ability to see, evaluate, control how an individual thinks and learns. Less formally, learning to learn can be characterized as a process of thinking about self-directed learning and consciously applying the results of such thinking to subsequent learning.