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Heuzeroth, Johannes ORCID: 0000-0002-5062-9777 and Budke, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0003-1063-8991 (2021). Metacognitive Strategies for Developing Complex Geographical Causal Structures-An Interventional Study in the Geography Classroom. Eur. J. Invest. Health Psychol. Educ., 11 (2). S. 382 - 405. BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2254-9625

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Abstract

This article examines the impact of applied metacognition on the development of geographical causal structures by students in the geography classroom. For that, three different metacognitive strategies were designed: a. action plan, activating meta-knowledge prior to problem-solving and simultaneously visualizing action steps for dealing with the task (A); b. circular thinking (C), a loop-like, question-guided procedure applied during the problem-solving process that supports and controls content-related and linguistic cognition processes; c. reflexion (R), aiming at evaluating the effectivity and efficiency of applied problem-solving heuristics after the problem-solving process and developing strategies for dealing with future tasks. These strategies were statistically tested and assessed as to their effectiveness on the development of complex geographical causal structures via a quasi-experimental pre-posttest design. It can be shown that metacognitive strategies strongly affect students' creation of causal structures, which depict a multitude of elements and relations at a high degree of interconnectedness, thus enabling a contentually and linguistically coherent representation of system-specific properties of the human-environment system. On the basis of the discussion of the results, it will be demonstrated that metacognitive strategies can provide a significant contribution to initiating systemic thinking-competences and what the implications might be on planning and teaching geography lessons.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Heuzeroth, Johannes UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5062-9777 UNSPECIFIED Budke, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1063-8991 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-562853
DOI:	10.3390/ejihpe11020029
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. J. Invest. Health Psychol. Educ.
Volume:	11
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 382 - 405
Date:	2021
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2254-9625
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; COGNITIVE LOAD; SYSTEMS Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56285