Conceptual system

Conceptualization

Concept learning

Mathematics education

Cognitive psychology

Process (computing)

Engineering

Philosophy

Neuroscience

Pure mathematics

Cognition

Field (mathematics)

Operating system

Thinking processes

Computer science

Conceptual framework

Management science

Cognitive science

Process management

Psychology

Mathematics

Epistemology

Artificial intelligence

Conceptual model

Statistical thinking

Systems thinking

Thinking Skills and Creativity

In the last decade studies on the notion of complex thinking have proliferated and there are several authors who propose the need of promoting it through educational systems; However, there is a lack of operational conceptualization allowing the development of instruments, tasks or evaluation systems for observation or measurement, especially from the conceptual perspectives developed by Edgar Morin and Mathew Lipman, considered the most relevant and referenced notions in the educational field. In this sense, this study aims to develop a conceptual model with the operational definitions of skills and/or cognitive processes of complex thinking. To accomplish this, the main proposed conceptualizations and the approach to their processes from the cognitive sciences were reviewed. Therefore, a new conceptualization for complex thinking is proposed through a process of synthesis and conjugation of different conceptual perspectives.

A conceptual proposal and operational definitions of the cognitive processes of complex thinking