Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry (Practitioner Inquiry, 16)

Wells, Gordon

ISBN 10: 0807740144 / ISBN 13: 9780807740149

Published by Teachers College Pr, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry (Practitioner Inquiry, 16)
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807740144
• ISBN 13: 9780807740149
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This text is an account by teachers of the inquiries into practice they have undertaken in their own classrooms. The contributing teachers share a common social-constructivist framework. They focus their inquiries upon the dialogue through which knowledge is constructed in the classroom.

About the Author

Gordon Wells is a teacher educator and well-known educational action researcher. He was a recipient of the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship at the University of Bristol, and is currently Professor of Education at the University of California at Santa Cruz. During the writing of this book, he was Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto.