Children’s Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom
Listen to a podcast summary of Mercer, Wegerif, and Dawes' 1999 paper on how children's classroom talk supports the growth of reasoning skills.
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Listen to this summary of the paper entitled ‘Children’s Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom’. This paper was written by Neil Mercer, Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes, and was published in 1999 in the British Educational Research Journal.
Children's Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom. Mercer, N., Wegerif, R., & Dawes, L. (1999). British Educational Research Journal, 25(1), 95-111.
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Episode published 16 Jun 2021.