Much of the focus of today's educational curricular reform can be traced to this Taxonomy. And while, it is not at all clear that the Bloom Taxonomy is a complete description of the tools we use to think, it provide us with a much needed and well-established pattern that we can work with. We will start with the higher order skills, and return to look at the complete pattern which has, I find, an interesting structure. Analysis Analysis is the act of differentiating. Bloom describes it using verbs like - compare, contract, differentiate, discriminate, examine, experiment.
Analysis is a fundamental cognitive process because it is the search for difference.
Whenever we take apart something, be it ideas or physical objects we are either creating or looking for difference. This is the act of cutting up experience. Twilight is a good time for us to see how the world looks to babies and to see how we come to analyze a section of experience for the first time. And if we are in a new place, perhaps driving down a highway or waking in a strange room in the middle of the night. And if we are suddenly brought to attend and look out at that world, we catch a glimpse of unrecognizable experience.