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Product Description: First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the creation of ‘common knowledge’ or shared understanding between teacher and pupils...read more

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9780415632911 | Reissue edition (Routledge, June 21, 2012), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice.

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9780415632942 | Reissue edition (Routledge, December 16, 2013), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice.
9780416399004 | Reprint edition (Methuen, August 1, 1989), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: This book is about education as a communicative process, about how knowledge is presented, received, controlled, understood and misunderstood by teachers and children in the classroom.

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Product Description: Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together. This ability to ‘interthink’ is an important product of our evolutionary history that is just as important for our survival today. Many kinds of work activity depend on the success of groups or teams finding joint solutions to problems...read more

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9780415675536 | Routledge, October 4, 2013, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Through using spoken language, people are able to think creatively and productively together.

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Hardcover:

9780415404785 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 22, 2007), cover price $190.00

Paperback:

9780415404792 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 22, 2007), cover price $57.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203946657 | Routledge, July 18, 2007, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world...read more
By Barbara Mayor (editor), Neil Mercer (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

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9780415376860 | Routledge, May 9, 2007, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.

Paperback:

9780415376877 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 9, 2007), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.

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Product Description: Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics. It examines the way in which the English language is used today in different contexts and in many parts of the world, by both native and non-native speakers...read more
By Ann Hewings (editor), Janet Maybin (editor) and Neil Mercer (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415376815 | Routledge, February 12, 2007, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics.

Paperback:

9780415376822 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 12, 2007), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Using English provides an invaluable introduction to the study of English for students of language and linguistics.

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Product Description: This is the Australian edition of a highly successful thinking skills program from the United Kingdom. The program is an excellent resource for the direct teaching of speaking, listening and thinking skills, and its use has been shown to raise students' achievement across the curriculum...read more

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9780864315816 | Australian Council for Educational, September 1, 2006, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This is the Australian edition of a highly successful thinking skills program from the United Kingdom.

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Product Description: This reader provides an accessible collection of readings which illustrate both the current variation in research on language and literacy and the common underlying themes. It is made up of twenty chapters, of which eight have been specially commissioned...read more
By Sharon Goodman (editor), Teresa Lillis (editor), Janet Maybin (editor) and Neil Mercer (editor)

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9781858562889 | Trentham Books Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This reader provides an accessible collection of readings which illustrate both the current variation in research on language and literacy and the common underlying themes.

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Product Description: Book by Mercer, Neil

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9781853108891 | Airlife Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Book by Mercer, Neil

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday language and drawing on a wide range of research, but always with a light style, Neil Mercer provides a unified account of the relationship between thought and language.Mercer analyses real-life examples of language being used effectively, or otherwise, in many different settings, including workplaces and schools, the home, the internet and the courtroom, and offers practical insights into how we might improve our communication skills.Words and Minds will appeal to anyone interested in language and the psychology of everyday life.

Hardcover:

9780415224758 | Routledge, September 1, 2000, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done.

Paperback:

9780415224765 | Routledge, September 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done.

Miscellaneous:

9780203464984 | Routledge, May 3, 2002, cover price $33.95

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Product Description: Hoy en día existe un gran interés sobre el empleo cotidiano del lenguaje. La gente quiere saber cómo comunicarse con éxito. Palabras y mentes nos muestra, de una manera vívida y dinámica, cómo empleamos el lenguaje para combinar nuestros recursos mentales y actuar en consecuencia...read more

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9788449311444, titled "Palabras y mentes / Words and Minds" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, November 15, 2001, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Hoy en día existe un gran interés sobre el empleo cotidiano del lenguaje.

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Product Description: English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher N. Candlin (editor) and Neil Mercer (editor)

Paperback:

9780415241229 | Routledge, January 1, 2001, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition.

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Product Description: English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher N. Candlin (editor) and Neil Mercer (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415241212 | Routledge, January 1, 2001, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on second language acquisition.

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Product Description: Este libro aborda el modo en que ciertas personas pueden ayudar a otras a aprender. La vida humana depende de que el conocimiento se cree y se comparta conjuntamente, de manera que debemos contar con los demás para desarrollar nuestra comprensión y para adquirir conocimientos prácticos e intelectuales...read more

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9788449303227, titled "La construccion guiada del conocimiento / The Guided Construction of Knowledge" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, January 9, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Este libro aborda el modo en que ciertas personas pueden ayudar a otras a aprender.

English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world. It looks at the place of English within formal education, and at some of the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of English.
By Neil Mercer (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Paperback:

9780415131223 | Routledge, December 1, 1996, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings.

Miscellaneous:

9780203993200 | Routledge, December 5, 1996, cover price $43.95 | also contains Learning English: Development and Diversity, Learning English: Development and Diversity

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Product Description: This book is about how people help other people to learn. Human life depends on knowledge being jointly created and shared: we rely on others for developing our understanding and for acquiring practical and intellectual skills. Yet most research on learning and thinking has focused on individuals...read more

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9781853592638 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Through analyzing talk which goes on in primary school classrooms and some other locations, this text explains the process of teaching and learning as a social, communicative activity.

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9781853592621 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book is about how people help other people to learn.

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9788475094922, titled "El conocimiento compartido / Shared Knowledge" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, September 7, 1988, cover price $33.95

Hardcover:

9780335102938 | Open Univ Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $90.00

Paperback:

9780335155583 | Open Univ Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $32.00

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