Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge : The selected works of Neil Mercer (Hardcover)

Introduction; Chapter 1. Community language and education; Chapter 2. Researching common knowledge: investigating the development of shared understanding in the classroomactivity in the classroom; Chapter 4. Laying the foundations; Chapter 5. Language for teaching a language; Chapter 6. Developing dialogues; Chapter 7. Reasoning as a scientist: ways of helping children to use language to learn science; Chapter 8. Sociocultural discourse analysis: analysing classroom talk as a social mode of thinking; Chapter 9. The seeds of time: why classroom dialogue needs a temporal analysis; Chapter 10.The analysis of classroom talk: methods and methodologies; Chapter 11. Dialogic teaching in the primary science classroom; Chapter 12. Using interactive whiteboards to orchestrate classroom dialogue; Chapter 13. The social brain, language, and goal-directed collective thinking: a social conception of cognition and its implications for how we think, teach, and learn; Chapter 14. Classroom talk and the development of self-regulation and dialogue in primary classrooms; Chapter 15. The study of talk between teachers and students, from the 1970s until the 2010s; Chapter 16. Dialogue, thinking together and digital technology in the classroom: some educational implications for a continuing line of inquiry; Chapter 17. An oracy assessment toolkit: linking research and development in the assessment if students’ spoken language skills at age 11-12