Teachers' Perceptions of Thinking Skills in the Primary Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	Burke, Lynsey A.; Williams, Joanne M.; Skinner, Don
Titel	Teachers' Perceptions of Thinking Skills in the Primary Curriculum
Quelle	In: Research in Education, 77 (2007), S.1-13 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-5237
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Thinking Skills; Teaching Methods; Elementary School Teachers; Developmental Stages; Age Differences; Creative Thinking; Critical Thinking; Problem Solving; Decision Making; Metacognition; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Denkfähigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kreatives Denken; Kritisches Denken; Problemlösen; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition
Abstract	The study reported in this article examines primary teachers' understandings of thinking skills within the curriculum. All respondents were from primary schools within a local authority in central Scotland, and in total thirty-six schools were represented. Practitioners' perceptions were explored by analysing their quantitative responses to questions about the frequency of specific thinking skills taught across curricular areas. The methods and procedure adopted for this study were based on the thinking frameworks of Swartz and Parks (1994) and McGuinness (2003). Data were coded using parametric statistics to reveal developmental trends apparent when teaching thinking skills. The findings showed that teachers believed that some thinking skills are more fully integrated into areas of the curriculum than others and also highlighted the lack of a coherent progression of age-specific thinking skills being taught from early to upper primary. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) [This research was supported by Falkirk Council Education Services.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10