Abstract

NARVAJA, Pablo  and  JAROSLAVSKY, María Carolina. Metacognition and the acquisition of knowledge processes underlying science. Interdisciplinaria [online]. 2004, n.esp, pp.143-147. ISSN 1668-7027.

Flavell (1976) defines metacognition providing two different approaches to the term; one, related to the knowledge about personal knowledge, and the other one referring to the control of personal cognition. In epistemology, the reflection about the validity of scientific theories builds up some criteria to acknowledge the scientific condition of knowledge and to distinguish it from others (Klimovsky, 1990). Metatheory controls the intellectual activity in disciplinary fields. Meta-cognition and metatheory lead processes to optimize thought and to arrive to epistemologically valid knowledge.

Keywords : Cognition; metacognition; theory; metatheory.

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