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The role of reflection and mentoring in ICT teacher professional development: dialogue and learning across the hemispheres
Full text linkIntrospective abilities in preschool children
No full textThe main aim of the current research is to examine
the existence of young childrenâs introspective abilities,
such as the awareness of the âfactâ and the âcontentâ of
thought. Fifty children of mean age 5 years were
individually tested both at the beginning and at the end
of the school year. Half of them were randomly selected and constituted the experimental group and had an intervention for half an hour for twenty weeks, which gave emphasis to the use and instruction of a number of internal state words and other metacognitive activities. At the end of
the intervention, the experimental group scored statistically higher in the metacognitive ability of introspection, and especially in childrenâs accuracy in referring to the content of thought
