Konsten att tänka först och handla därefter : En studie om att utveckla yngre tonåringars problemlösningsförmåga

Sammanfattning: This study is about how to develop younger teens problem solving ability and their social competence. The study carried through by using a qualitative method, two observations and ten interviews. The observations where preparatory for the structured interviews. The respondents where pupils in a class were it is an ongoing project which purpose is to develop childrens problem solving ability and social skills with cognitive training and an empowerment based reasoning model that is called rahyab. Rahyab is a Persian word and it means path- finding. Focus has been on the pupils experiences of working with the model and the school project. The studies approach is to examine how younger teens problem solving ability can be developed by cognitive training and social pedagogics? Other questions that we’ve been trying to answer are: what have the younger teens learned from rahyab and it’s steps? How has the younger teens experienced working with rahyab? and do the younger teens feel that they have and will have use of rahyab? The results and analysis shows that the younger teens can develop their analytic thinking and thereby also their problem solving ability. They feel that they now have a better understanding for how other people think. This means that they appears to have experienced a development in their social competence. The results shows, with the support of prior knowledge, that younger teens problem solving ability can be developed by cognitive training and social pedagogics.