Abstract

ALMEIDA, Leandro S.. To facilitate the learning: helping the students to learn and to think. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 2002, vol.6, n.2, pp. 155-165. ISSN 1413-8557.

Recent learning theories point out active student’s role and, logically, his previous training for assuming this responsability. Assuming learning as stable and personal meaning knowledge, it is important that school and teachers develop capacities, attitudes and behaviours of higher autonomy and self-regulation in the students. Such regulation presupposes, on one side, students’ self-knowledge in terms of personal characteristics and capacities, and in the other side an attentive analysis of the specificities of each school task. Cognitive training and learning strategies development programs, most of them based in Educational Psychology theories, are assumed today as instruments to attend these objectives. In order to have a successful school to all or for the generality of students, the teachers’ training and the existence of psychologists in the schools are the most important requirements.

Keywords : Learning; Cognition; School success; Cognitive training.