As the world becomes more complex and demanding, many educators recognise that preparing learners for
life after school must include an education that provides the necessary tools to engage in lifelong learning.
The Schools as Thinking Communities project of the Vaal Triangle Campus of NorthWest University (NWU)
aims to train and support South African preservice and inservice teachers to apply and infuse well
established approaches to the teaching of thinking skills and strategies, as well as dispositions to learn and
think across the curriculum.
This is done to enable learners to develop the propensity of skilfully and mindfully applying cognitive tools
when confronted with general and academicrelated problems and challenges. Preparing students to simply
know knowledge is no longer sufficient to equip them with what they need to face a world that changes faster
than most can adapt.
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