Factori și condiții în dezvoltarea gândirii științifice la pedagogi prin prisma eficientizării procesului educațional

Abstract

This article sets out step by step the conditions for the development of scientific thinking in pedagogues from several perspectives. The first perspective analyzed in the article proposes that teachers have cognitive abilities to process and organize knowledge, these cognitive abilities are based on the principles of formation of critical thinking, creative thinking and are characterized by identifying information, arguments, points of view, understanding, explanation, exemplification, establishing relationships between various concepts, etc. Cognitive abilities are based on primary capitalization and complex capitalization. Metacognitive abilities come to structure this process from the perspective of self-assessment materialized in the teacher's reflections on their own thinking process and includes representations on knowledge and skills of scientific thinking, facilitating self-regulated learning. A fundamental condition that must be ensured in the development of scientific thinking in pedagogues is represented by the listed characteristics: objectivity, logic, continuity, depth, inter-, multi- and transdisciplinarity, etc. The detailed exposition of the mentioned concepts allows the elucidation of the factors and conditions in the development of scientific thinking in pedagogues in terms of streamlining the educational process as a strictly necessary condition for developing a competitive education system against the global problems generated by the pandemic.