Educational Dialogues

International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 291-303

  Littleton, Karen ^a   Mercer, Neil ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class interaction; Classroom based intervention program; Dialogic teaching; Education; Exploratory talk; Socio cultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886982941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118323342.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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