Learning to learn

Abstract

In the process of preparation for the practice of teaching, the importance of learning to learn is emphasized, which means to acquire the necessary habits to develop intellectually. Some of these habits are: the ability to deal with new ideas; to understand a text; training to stay reading for hours, developing ideas from the reading, taking notes, comments, references and linking new concepts to those already acquired. You learn to develop the ability to sustain a great intellectual effort, objectively, to consider what is doubted, what you disagree with, what is the relationship between what is being learned and previous knowledge that is possessed? Every learning situation means a break in a balance achieved. Learning is possible when facing situations that challenges previous points of view and changes are achieved to make them compatible with the new facts, instead of assuming the subjective security, the balance that had been reached in previous knowledge. The objective of this article is to socialize contents about the construction of knowledge, among university students and professors, as help in the application of the method learning to learn, as part of the new transformations of Higher Education. As a result, there will be support
material available to learn how to build their own knowledge, based on previous experiences and learning, using the method learning to learn.