Towards an Account of Teaching General Thinking Skills that is Compatible with the Assumptions of Sociocultural Theory

Theory and Research in Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-159

  Wegerif, Rupert ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dialogue; discourse; Habermas; reason; thinking skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996230251     PISSN: 14778785     EISSN: 17413192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477878504043441     Document Type: Article

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