Interthinking Putting talk to work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67552-9, ISBN: 0-415-67552-9
"Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together. This ability to ‘interthink’ is an important product of our evolutionary history that is just as important for our survival today. Many kinds of work activity depend on the success of groups or teams finding joint solutions to problems. Creative achievement is rarely the product of solitary endeavour, but of people working within a collective e ..."
"Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understanding and for jointly constructing knowledge. So what practical steps can teachers take to develop effective classroom interaction? Bringing together leading international researchers and drawing on t ..."
"English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts.The articles - a range of seminal and specially commissioned piec ..."
Common Knowledge(Updated) The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1989 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-04308-3, ISBN: 0-415-04308-5
"This book is about education as a communicative process, about how knowledge is presented, received, controlled, understood and misunderstood by teachers and children in the classroom."
Interthinking(1st Edition) Putting talk to work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67553-6, ISBN: 0-415-67553-7
"The view of creativity as a collaborative, social endeavour has become a significant feature of educational psychology in recent years. With its roots in sociocultural theory and research, collective creativity looks at how people combine mental resources to create ideas and objects together. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work challenges the myth of the ‘lone genius’ by exploring the gro ..."
Common Knowledge(1st Edition) (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer Hardcover, 206 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-63291-1, ISBN: 0-415-63291-9
"First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the creation of ‘common knowledge’ or shared understanding between teacher and pupils. They show the presenting, receiving, sharing, controlling, negotiating, understanding and misunderstanding of k ..."
Common Knowledge The Development of Understanding in the Classroom (Open University set book) by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1987 by Methuen Young Books ISBN-13: 978-0-416-39890-8, ISBN: 0-416-39890-1
"Introduction This book is about education as a communicative process. The
research it describes is not about classroom language as such, and so cannot be
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The Sharp End(1st Edition) Sea Harrier, Front Line by NeilMercer Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1995 by Airlife Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85310-544-9, ISBN: 1-85310-544-9
Common Knowledge(Reprint) The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1987 by Methuen Publishing Company (Dump List) ISBN-13: 978-0-416-39900-4, ISBN: 0-416-39900-2
Talking and Feeling by Frank Mcneil, NeilMercer Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1982 by A & C Black (Childrens Books) ISBN-13: 978-0-7136-2174-7, ISBN: 0-7136-2174-5
"Tang, K. S., & Putra, G. B. S. (2018). Infusing literacy into an inquiry instructional
model to support students' construction of scientific explanations. In K. S. Tang &
K. Danielsson (Eds.), Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science ..."
Common Knowledge(1st Edition) (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-63294-2, ISBN: 0-415-63294-3
"First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the creation of ‘common knowledge’ or shared understanding between teacher and pupils. They show the presenting, receiving, sharing, controlling, negotiating, understanding and misunderstanding of k ..."
Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals): The Development of Understanding in the Classroom by Derek Edwards, NeilMercer 194 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-21267-3, ISBN: 1-136-21267-1
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Interthinking Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton, NeilMercer 144 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-67530-0, ISBN: 1-136-67530-2
"One ofour former doctoral students, Alison Twiner, has called the kind of text the
children are creating on the IWB a 'digital improvable object' (Twiner 2011;Twiner
, Littleton, Coffin & Whitelock in press).Teachers often encourage children to ..."
"Commenting on this, Karen Hume wrote: This speaks to the importance of a
round of whole-class and small group activity before attempting to work with
student questions. The common base that we had built [in this way] not only
provided us with a number of shared understandings and a language for
discussing them, but also primed the pump for new questions. ... Certainly, for this
class, in the course of listening to each other call o ..."
"Since the earliest stages of the Thinking Together research in the early 1990s,
we and our colleagues have been using computerbased activities within our
intervention programmes for improving children's interthinking as they work
together in school. This aspect of our research has been discussed in some
detail by our colleagues Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes in their book Thinking
and Learning with ICT(Wegerif and Dawes, 2004). Some ..."
Thinking Out Loud A Program of Activities for Developing Speaking, Listening, and Thinking Skills for Children Aged 8-11 by Lyn Dawes, NeilMercer, Rupert Wegerif Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2006 by Acer Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86431-581-6, ISBN: 0-86431-581-3
"An Australian edition of a thinking skills program from the United Kingdom."
Sentinel(1st Edition) by John Howie, NeilMercer, Neville Mercer Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Venture Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-898432-50-0, ISBN: 1-898432-50-3