Development of expert thinking: The role of goal-oriented practice and practicing
Exceptional achievements, expert masteries, masterful performances and creative products can be attained only after a number of years of guided and well-devised practice or goal-oriented practicing. We are dealing with a long-term, systematic and carefully guided training which gradually, s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | srp |
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Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2013/0579-64311302227K.pdf |
| Summary: | Exceptional achievements, expert masteries, masterful performances and
creative products can be attained only after a number of years of guided and
well-devised practice or goal-oriented practicing. We are dealing with a
long-term, systematic and carefully guided training which gradually, step by
step, leads towards developing expertise and producing supreme achievements
and performances in different areas of human activities. This paper explores
the role of goal-oriented practice in the development of expert thinking in
science, its characteristics and levels of development. Expert thinking in
science is defined as the competence developed through learning and
practicing of a certain scientific discipline within systematic education and
training as an integral part of artificial development. The goal-oriented
practice takes place in phases. Its important feature is a gradual and
carefully guided progress and enhancement of abilities that is achieved
through meaningful tasks and relevant activities suited to age and the level
of expertise in a particular domain, along with constant improvement of
activities based on feedback provided by mentors. On the path of development
of expertise and expert thinking in science, as one of the forms of
manifesting giftedness, an individual needs to be ready to invest efforts,
set aside the time and be dedicated to work, as well as to have the
possibilities and opportunities to pursue scientific research. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179018: Identifikacija, merenje i
razvoj kognitivnih i emocionalnih kompetencija važnih društvu orijentisanom
na evropske integracije] |
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| ISSN: | 0579-6431 1820-9270 |