Meaning of interthink | Babel Free

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To use talk to think collectively, to engage with others' ideas through oral language.

intransitive

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“2002 Mercer, Neil, "Developing Dialogues." In Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton, eds. Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. That is, exploratory talk⟳ represents a way in which partners involved in problem-solving activity can use⟳ language to think⟳ collectively -- to 'interthink' effectively, with their activity encapsulated in an intermental zone of their own⟳ construction.”

“2015 Knight, Simon and Littleton, Karen. “Thinking, Interthinking, and Technological Tools.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Research⟳ on Teaching Thinking, edited by Rupert Wegerif, Li Li, and James C. Kaufman, Routledge, 2015. This power, we argue⟳, lies in the ways in which dialogue is used to interthink – that is, to think⟳ together, to build⟳ knowledge co-constructively through our shared understanding.”

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