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 Prepared by : Suzlim Abdullah (G0810294)
Instructor : Prof. Dr. Sidek Baba
 Let͛s Recall Back

Cognition
The process by which knowledge and
understanding is developed in the mind
 Œnowledge and Understanding
Œnowledge
The state of knowing about particular fact or
situation.
The information, understanding and skills
that you gain through education or
experience.
Understanding
The knowledge that somebody has about a
particular subject or situation
¦slamic Perspectives on Œnowledge
Œnowledge is the arrival of the soul at the meaning of a
thing or an object of knowledge

Aql signifies an innate properties that binds and

withholds objects of knowledge by means of words.
~ man possess the ability to articulate words
in meaningful pattern (natiq and nutq)

The real nature of ͚aql is that it is a spiritual substance by

which the rational soul (al-nafs al natiqah) recognizes and
distinguishes truth from falsehood
[estern does not include soul as a subject matter of
studies but ¦slamic approach includes the element
of soul as an important variable

Skinner : The behaviour we called as ͚right and

wrong͛ are nothing more than contingencies of
responses towards immediate and tangible rewards
and punishments and nothing to do with the
concepts of good and bad.
Cognition and Understanding

Cognition
The framework
of understanding

Cognition = Mind Component = Establish our ¦ntellect

 The process of Understanding
Teaching for understanding

@ he most basic goal of education is to prepare students for

further learning and more effective functioning in their lives.
Students garner knowledge and skill in schools so that they
can put them to work; in professional roles = scientist,
engineer, designer, doctor, businessperson, writer artist,
musician, and in lay roles--citizen, voter, parent--that require
appreciation, understanding, and judgment͟

David Perkins
American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American
Federation of Teachers; v17 n3, pp. 8,28-35, Fall 1993.
 The process of Understanding
Our current understanding is based on the idea that the brain
constructs new meanings from existing understanding. ¦t is
when we act on new information that we link it to the old.
Feedback on our new understanding is important to
embed a correct version and reduce the errors caused by
spurious links.

Effective learning can take place when we lead students to :

å make new links with existing knowledge
å test the new understanding
å gain feedback on errors.
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 The process of Understanding
How do we know if our students really understand what we
taught them?
å Understanding goes beyond knowing
Example:
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å understanding something is a matter of being able to
carry out a variety of "performances" concerning the
topic--performances like making predictions about the
snowball fight in space that show one's understanding
and, at the same time, advance it by encompassing new
situations.

[e call such performances "understanding

performances" or "performances of understanding".
 How can student learn with
understanding?
å The learners must spend the larger part of their time
with activities that ask them to generalize, find new
examples,
å carry out applications, and work through other
understanding performances.
å And they must do so in a thoughtful way, with
å appropriate feedback to help them perform better.
¦slamic Perspectives on Understanding

Discrimination

Judgment Classification

Formulation
of meaning
 The process of Articulating
Articulate
å to express your feeling or explain your thoughts or
thinking clearly in words
å To speak ,pronounce in a clear way
å To be related to something so that together they form a
whole
å To be joined to something else by a joint
 The process of Articulating
å Students unable to answer questions that ask them to
a) Define
b) Describe
c) Justify
d) Give reasons

å Can be helped by practice

During classroom discussion teacher should play the
important role in asking questions (in stages) that help
students to express their ideas
 ¦slamic Perspective on articulating
å Natiq and Nutq
The terms natiq and nutq are derived from a root that
conveys the basic meaning of speech , in the sense of
human speech , so that they both signify a certain
power and capacity in man to articulate words in
meaningful pattern
 Cognition at work

    
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Behaviours/
Cognition Performance
Actions
Drives Produces
Cognition at work
 References

Alizi Alias Psychology of Learning From ¦slamic Perspective

David Perkins American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American

Federation of Teachers; v17 n3, pp. 8,28-35, Fall 1993.

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas The concept of Education ¦slam