The Social Brain, Language, and Goal-Directed Collective Thinking: A Social Conception of Cognition and Its Implications for Understanding How We Think, Teach, and Learn

Educational Psychologist

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 148-168

  Mercer, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84880134165     PISSN: 00461520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2013.804394     Document Type: Article

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