Towards a dialogic theory of how children learn to think

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 179-190

  Wegerif, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bakhtin; Cognitive development; Creativity; Dialogic; Heidegger; Knowledge construction; Levinas; Ontology; Theory; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053558378     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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