Abstract
CITATION: Van Aswegen, S., Swart, E. & Oswald, M. M. 2019. Developing metacognition among young learners by using stories. South African Journal of Education, 39(2):Art. #1531, doi:10.15700/saje.v39n2a1531.
Highlights
In the face of aging workforces in Europe and North America, there is a global interest in investing in quality education for the youth, the workforce of tomorrow, in emerging economic markets
The research problem was: How can storytelling help young learners acquire reflective selfawareness and knowledge of metacognitive strategy use in content area learning? This article reports on the implementation of the intervention, and forms part of a larger design-based research (DBR) study that investigated formulating design principles to inform new frameworks
From the data collected by means of read-to-learn questionnaire (RLQ) 1 before the intervention it appeared as if the class group from School B was unfamiliar with most of the metacognitive strategies
Summary
In the face of aging workforces in Europe and North America, there is a global interest in investing in quality education for the youth, the workforce of tomorrow, in emerging economic markets. According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, the economies of South Asia and Africa will supply nearly 60% of the world’s new workers by 2030 (Turbot, 2016). If current education trends such as high drop-out rates, meagre funds, a lack of access and inclusion, and acute teacher shortages continue to plague progress (Turbot, 2016), the global labour force will include a billion workers who lack secondary level education. Hoffman (2003) maintains that future employability requires the ability to deal effectively with change, to keep learning new things and to know how to learn and think independently. A fundamental goal of education today, more than ever, is to promote the development of self-regulated learning. Metacognition, our ability to think about our thinking and how we learn, plays a central role in self-regulation (Fisher, 2007)
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