Explicit reasoning, creativity and co-construction in primary school children's collaborative activities

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 84-94

  Rojas Drummond, Sylvia ^a   Mazón, Nancy ^a   Fernández, Manuel ^b   Wegerif, Rupert ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b North Regional Committee for Cooperation with UNESCO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co construction; Collaboration; Creativity; Exploratory talk; Intervention educational programme; Oracy; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750726726     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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