Teaching and learning disciplinary knowledge: Developing the dialogic space for an answer when there isn't even a question

Educational Dialogues: Understanding and Promoting Productive interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 289-303

  Scott, Phil ^a   Ametller, Jaume ^a   Mortimer, Eduardo ^b   Emberton, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Calder High School   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84911085441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203863510     Document Type: Chapter

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