A Learning Support Method to Increase Motivation in Developing Metacognitive Skills as Agentic Skills

Abstract

Learners who tackle tasks for which no one knows the correct solution are required to develop identity capital. Metacognitive functions such as sense of purpose and self-control play a particularly important role in learning agentic skills of identity capital. Therefore, the present study proposes a learning support method to increase the motivation to acquire the metacognitive skills needed to develop identity capital. With this method, we focus on the role of recursion of the self with the aim of making the learner aware of the importance of metacognitive skills centering on the self-dialogue of Dialogical Self Theory. In order to implement an educational program using this method, we used the video viewing and report sharing as a teaching strategy. The program’s implementation resulted in potential for many learners deepen their understanding of Metacognitive Theory and Dialogical Self Theory with a demonstrative increase in motivation to develop metacognitive skills and identity capital.