Thinking Together and Alone

Educational Researcher

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 46-53

  Kuhn, Deanna ^a  

^a Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

argumentation; cognitive processes development; collaboration; cooperative learning; discourse; discourse analysis; experimental design; inquiry; mixed methods; pedagogy; reasoning thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922949441     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X15569530     Document Type: Review

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