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The author analyzes various approaches to the formation of metacognitive structures of cognitive activity and their roles in the development of general culture of thinking in the process of education. The article studies the impact of these approaches on the formation of modern educational strategies and models. There is shown the specificity of formation and development of cognitive and metacognitive structures of consciousness and thinking in the context of the traditional subject of study in the process of developing education, focused on the metasubject contents. There is substantiated the need of taking into account the distinctions of the metacognitive structures organizing logical thinking in its classical understanding, and the narrative language categories and structures. A conclusion is made about the necessity and prospects of development of new models of education aimed at the development of metacognitive structures of consciousness and abilities to reflect the categories, which organize thinking and language means.