Neil Mercer, Karen Littleton (UK The Open University)

Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking

A Sociocultural Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provide an account of the relationship between dialogue and children's learning development. This book provides a case for the importance of dialogue in children's intellectual development and supports this with a socio-cultural theory, which explains the relationship between dialogues and learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780415404792
• ISBN-10: 0415404797
• Artikelnr.: 22781264

Autorenporträt

Neil Mercer is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. . Karen Littleton is Professor of Psychology in Education at The Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Dialogue? 2. Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn 3.
Language for Getting Things Done 4. Studying Thinking and its Development
as Situated Dialogue 5. A Dialogic Theory of Learning and Development 6.
Children Actively Make Sense of Their World...but They Need Guidance to Do
So 7. Conclusions