An 8-Layer Model for Metacognitive Skills in Kindergarten

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Athanasios Drigas Georgia Kokkalia Alexandra Economou

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Athanasios Drigas
Research Director, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, ΙΙΤ-Net Media Lab & Mind- Brain R&D, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

A B S T R A C T

In recent years, more and more researchers have been investigating cognitive and metacognitive skills that seem to be related to the improvement of the performance of kindergarten children. In this paper, we present the cognitive processes that are related to it, such as working memory, attention, inhibitory control, executive function, and processing speed. In addition, we refer to metacognitive skills and their role in controlling and regulating cognitive processes in order to improve children’s performance. Finally, we present a new taxonomy of skills, the pyramid of 8 levels, as well as their gradual development through the appropriate cognitive and metacognitive mechanisms. In this study, a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach is attempted by collecting and utilizing data from sciences such as cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and philosophy. The research has led us to the 8 layers that underpin metacognition in preschoolers following the model of the hierarchical organization of knowledge.

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Review Article

Publication history

Received: Fri 08, Jan 2021
Accepted: Tue 26, Jan 2021
Published: Tue 09, Mar 2021

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© 2023 Athanasios Drigas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.NNB.2021.01.01