Cognitive competence as a scaffold to be boosting critical thinking

This paper sheds light on critical thinking and creative thinking as two of the core elements of the cognitive competence, and also it looks back to some reviews about these two core features of cognitive competence, highlighting important points on it. Because we know that cognitive competence is not a self-regulated but is a learned process either naturally or unnaturally, still with some facing challenges in enhancing this quality. Hence, cognitive competence could be hailed as an important quality for nurturing critical thinking abilities and skills in children.