Talk:Social and Communicative Factors in Learning

Lauren suggests looking at work Shayer and Adey. Here are a couple of references:

• Adey, P.S. & Shayer, M. (1990). Accelerating the development of formal thinking in middle and high school students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(31), 267 - 285.
• Adey, P.S. & Shayer, M. (1994). Really Raising Standards: cognitive intervention and academic achievement. London: Routledge.

Following a more recent conversation with Lauren, here are a few others:

• Alexander, R. (2000) Culture and pedagogy: International comparisons in primary education Blackwell , Oxford
• Alexander, R. (2008) Towards teaching: Rethinking classroom talk. 4th ed., Dialogos , York, England
• Alexander, R. Mercer, N. and Hodgkinson, S. (eds) (2005) Culture, dialogue and learning: Notes on an emerging pedagogy. Exploring talk in school Sage , London.

In the spirit of "do now and ask forgiveness later", I'm going to add these references on the main page of the article.

--Koedinger 10:53, 2 April 2010 (EDT)

this recent paper looks potentially interesting

• Mercer, N. (2008). The Seeds of Time: Why Classroom Dialogue Needs a Temporal Analysis. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17(1), 33-59. doi:10.1080/10508400701793182.

--Koedinger 11:19, 2 April 2010 (EDT)

• The Mercer paper in JLS is interesting - but qualitative / conceptual. There are also interesting quantitative methodologies for including temporal dimensions into conversational analyses developed by Ming Ming Chiu (Buffalo)that are worth looking at. File:M. M. Chiu Flowing Toward Correct Contributions.pdf

Christa