Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings

by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford

Book Overview

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157110884X
• ISBN13: 9781571108845
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 9.1"