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Metacognition in medical education.

Dear Editor, Metacognition is awareness and control of one’s learning or the knowledge and thinking about one’s own or another’s thoughts, feeling, and values. It can be classified into two main components as knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition, which are both viewed as important for effective learning. Knowledge of cognition refers to what individuals know about their own cognition or about cognition in general. Regulation of cognition refers to a set of essential skills that help students control their learning. Essential skills included are planning, monitoring, and evaluation.

Brinquedos tradicionais na turquia: comparação entre cenários rurais e urbanos

The interaction between children and adults through playful activities creates possibilities for reciprocal spontaneous and demanded influences and for the development of reciprocal positive feelings. The main aim of this study was to find out the present situation of traditional toys by comparing the rural and urban settings - a mountain village and city center of Bursa (Northwest Anatolia), Turkey. It was questioned, if industrial toys were sold in villages, how village children effected this change. Data was collected by interviews in the houses of the participants, with the answers record permited by the parents. Interviews passed by content analysis. Results show that traditional hand made toys are going to disappear even in villages. This may happen because of the imitations of original toys and their cheap prices but at the same time because of the attractive nature of modern toys have the big impact as well.