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Gordon Wells
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1 Mar 1987
Based on the study "Language Learning at Home and at School", this text focuses on children's language, literacy and learning. It follows the development of a sample of children from their first words to the end of primary education and suggests ways to help them achieve their full potential.

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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Education; 1st Edition edition (1 Mar 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340407980
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340407981
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 388,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the first edition of The Meaning Makers, Gordon Wells used a wealth of observational data to demonstrate the importance of talk with adults for children s learning and development. The book worked especially well because it included the voices of the children and adults in its many illustrative examples. This new edition not only links the original analysis to recent research and contemporary educational issues, but also provides fascinating insights into the changing perspectives of a researcher over the span of a highly productive, international career. --Neil Mercer, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Dr. Gordon Wells is currently Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he researches and teaches in the fields of: language, literacy, and learning; the analysis of classroom interaction; and sociocultural theory. As an educator, his particular interest is in fostering dialogic inquiry as an approach to learning and teaching at all levels, based on the work of Vygotsky and other sociocultural theorists. The rationale for this approach together with examples of it in practice are presented in Dialogic inquiry: Towards a Sociocultural Practice and Theory of Education (Cambridge University Press, 1999). From 1969 to 1984, he was the Director of the Bristol Study of Language Development at Home and at School, and from 1984 to 2000, he was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, where he was involved in several collaborative action research projects with educational practitioners in Canada. Chief among these was a project entitled Developing Inquiring Communities in EducationA" (DICEP), which was funded by the Spencer Foundation. Books arising from this work are Constructing Knowledge Together (Heinemann, 1992), Changing Schools from Within (OISE Press and Heinemann, 1994), and Action, Talk and Text: Learning and Teaching through Inquiry, written with his DICEP teacher colleagues, (Teachers College Press, 2001). He is also co-editor of Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (Blackwell, 2002). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good read 13 Feb 2011
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This book is very easy to read with lots of transcripts from home and school. Really informative, good for any one wanting to extend children language and interactions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have 29 Aug 2010
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Meaning Makers is well written, researched, accessible, intelligent...a must for teachers, parents and anyone else interested in how and why we learn to communicate using words.
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