CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cognition encourages students to “think about their thinking” as a means to help them unlock a concept or subject they struggle with. Cognitive learning can help boost learner engagement and motivation as it gives them a new way to look at themselves and their brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognition refers to mental activity including thinking, remembering, learning and using language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Like other cognitivist theories, this assumes that students are actively involved in the learning process, showing initiative, perseverance, and adaptive skills in pursuing the learning, be it on their own or through social interaction (Zimmerman, 2001).

Detailed explanation-4: -The cognitive approach takes an interactionist view of the debate as it argues that our behavior is influenced by learning and experience (nurture), but also by some of our brains’ innate capacities as information processors e.g. language acquisition (nature).