Neil Mercer

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Neil Mercer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, University of Sussex, Open University

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Educational Psychology

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#81

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Neil Mercer's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Sussex

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According to Wikipedia, Neil Mercer is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. Mercer grew up in Cockermouth in Cumbria, where he went to Cockermouth Grammar School before studying psychology at the University of Manchester. He has a PhD in psycholinguistics from the University of Leicester. His research explores the role of dialogue in education and the development of children's reasoning.

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Neil Mercer's Published Works

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Published Works

Words and Minds : How We Use Language to Think Together (2000) (1474)
Common Knowledge: The Development of Understanding in the Classroom (1987) (1382)
Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking: A Sociocultural Approach (2007) (1267)
The Guided Construction of Knowledge: Talk Amongst Teachers and Learners (1995) (1264)
Children's Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom (1999) (720)
Reasoning as a scientist: ways of helping children to use language to learn science (2004) (645)
Sociocultural discourse analysis: analysing classroom talk as a social mode of thinking (2007) (610)
Explaining the dialogic processes of teaching and learning: The value and potential of sociocultural theory (2012) (439)
From social interaction to individual reasoning: an empirical investigation of a possible socio-cultural model of cognitive development (1999) (432)
The Seeds of Time: Why Classroom Dialogue Needs a Temporal Analysis (2008) (379)
The quality of talk in children’s collaborative activity in the classroom (1996) (369)
Scaffolding the development of effective collaboration and learning (2003) (352)
The analysis of classroom talk: methods and methodologies. (2010) (313)
Interthinking: Putting talk to work (2013) (307)
Teaching Children How to Use Language to Solve Maths Problems (2006) (293)
Talk and the Development of Reasoning and Understanding (2008) (197)
The Value of Exploratory Talk (2008) (190)
'Scaffolding': learning in the classroom (1992) (187)
The study of talk between teachers and students, from the 1970s until the 2010s (2014) (184)
Dialogic teaching in the primary science classroom (2009) (173)
Is “exploratory talk” productive talk? (1999) (159)
Re-Conceptualizing "Scaffolding" and the Zone of Proximal Development in the Context of Symmetrical Collaborative Learning. (2015) (157)
Teacher–Student Dialogue During Classroom Teaching: Does It Really Impact on Student Outcomes? (2019) (154)
How do teachers help children to learn? An analysis of teachers' interventions in computer-based activities (1992) (153)
A ‘learning revolution’? Investigating pedagogic practice around interactive whiteboards in British primary classrooms 1 (2007) (149)
In the mind and in the technology: The vicarious presence of the teacher in pupil's learning of science in collaborative group activity at the interactive whiteboard (2010) (138)
The Social Brain, Language, and Goal-Directed Collective Thinking: A Social Conception of Cognition and Its Implications for Understanding How We Think, Teach, and Learn (2013) (130)
Dialogue, thinking together and digital technology in the classroom: Some educational implications of a continuing line of inquiry (2017) (125)
Methods for studying the processes of interaction and collaborative activity in computer-based educational activities (2004) (122)
The quality of talk in children's joint activity at the computer (1994) (122)
Exploring talk in schools : inspired by the work of Douglas Barnes (2008) (121)
Using Computer-based Text Analysis to Integrate Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research on Collaborative Learning (1997) (117)
Using interactive whiteboards to orchestrate classroom dialogue (2010) (115)
English language teaching in its social context : a reader (2001) (109)
Computers and Reasoning Through Talk in the Classroom (1996) (104)
Can the interactive whiteboard support young children’s collaborative communication and thinking in classroom science activities? (2010) (100)
Language and Social Psychology (1979) (95)
Can the interactive whiteboard help to provide ‘dialogic space’ for children's collaborative activity? (2010) (90)
Words and minds (2000) (81)
Talking and thinking together at Key Stage 1 (2005) (81)
Software design to support discussion in the primary curriculum (1998) (79)
The impact of Lesson Study professional development on the quality of teacher learning (2019) (78)
Connecting observations of student and teacher learning: an examination of dialogic processes in Lesson Study discussions in mathematics (2016) (78)
Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom (2008) (75)
Teacher learning in the context of Lesson Study: A video-based analysis of teacher discussions (2017) (71)
The use of web-based collaborative concept mapping to support group learning and interaction in an online environment (2017) (69)
Reconstructing context: The conventionalization of classroom knowledge (1989) (66)
A Dialogic Inquiry Approach to Working with Teachers in Developing Classroom Dialogue (2011) (66)
Children's social development, peer interaction and classroom learning. (2007) (64)
Theories of learning and information technology (1993) (60)
Dialogic practices in primary school classrooms (2019) (59)
Widening access to educational opportunities through teaching children how to reason together (2004) (58)
The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education (2019) (57)
Scaffolding Student Understanding in Small-Group Work: Students’ Uptake of Teacher Support in Subsequent Small-Group Interaction (2018) (56)
Developing Argumentation: Lessons Learned in the Primary School (2009) (55)
Collaboration, scaffolding and the promotion of problem solving strategies in Mexican pre-schoolers (2001) (53)
Using English: From Conversation to Canon. (1996) (52)
The role of exploratory talk in classroom search engine tasks (2015) (51)
Changing our minds: a commentary on ‘Conceptual change: a discussion of theoretical, methodological and practical challenges for science education’ (2008) (48)
Thinking together in the UK and Mexico: transfer of an educational innovation (2005) (45)
Teacher interventions in small group work in secondary mathematics and science lessons (2016) (45)
Developing dialogues (2019) (40)
Learning English : development and diversity (1996) (38)
An oracy assessment toolkit: Linking research and development in the assessment of students' spoken language skills at age 11-12 (2017) (38)
From Social Interaction to Individual Reasoning : An Empirical Investigation of a Possible Model of Cognitive Development (2004) (37)
Promoting teacher and school development through co‐enquiry: developing interactive whiteboard use in a ‘dialogic classroom’ (2011) (36)
Coding classroom dialogue: Methodological considerations for researchers (2020) (35)
‘Wait, let's just think about this’: Using the interactive whiteboard and talk rules to scaffold learning for co-regulation in collaborative science activities (2013) (35)
A research-informed dialogic-teaching approach to early secondary school mathematics and science: the pedagogical design and field trial of the epiSTEMe intervention (2017) (34)
Talk about texts at the computer: using ICT to develop children's oral and literate abilities (2003) (34)
Language, literacy and education: A reader (2003) (34)
Language for the Social Construction of Knowledge: Comparing Classroom Talk in Mexican Preschools (1999) (33)
The significance of educational dialogues between primary school children (2010) (31)
Primary children's management of themselves and others in collaborative group work: ‘Sometimes it takes patience …’ (2014) (30)
Promoting Mr. "Chips": The Construction of the Teacher/Computer Relationship in Educational Advertising. (2001) (29)
Commentary on the Reconciliation of Cognitive and Sociocultural Accounts of Conceptual Change (2007) (28)
Collaborative epistemic discourse in classroom information-seeking tasks (2017) (26)
Commentary on the papers (2017) (26)
Sociocultural discourse analysis (2019) (24)
Spoken Language and New Technology (SLANT) (1991) (22)
Language and literacy from an educational perspective (1990) (21)
Principled Improvement in Science: Forces and proportional relations in early secondary-school teaching (2015) (21)
Connecting teacher identity formation to patterns in teacher learning (2017) (21)
Effects of role assignment in concept mapping mediated small group learning (2014) (20)
Computer-based activities in classroom contexts (1993) (19)
Editorial: Douglas Barnes revisited: If learning floats on a sea of talk, what kind of talk? And what kind of learning? (2010) (18)
CHILDREN’S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, PEER INTERACTION AND CLASSROOM LEARNING Primary Review Research Survey 2/1b (2007) (17)
Improving Students' Revision of Physics Concepts through ICT‐Based Co‐construction and Prescriptive Tutoring (2011) (17)
Putting the context into oracy: The construction of shared knowledge through classroom discourse (1988) (15)
Communication, collaboration and creativity: how musicians negotiate a collective ‘sound’ (2012) (14)
Development through dialogue (2002) (13)
The epiSTEMe pedagogical approach: essentials, rationales and challenges (2011) (13)
Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge (2019) (13)
Self-Regulation and Dialogue in Primary Classrooms : British Journal of Educational Psychology Monograph Series II: Psychological Aspects of Education – Current Trends: Number 10 (2013) (12)
Theories of learning and their implications (1993) (12)
Language in School and Community (1981) (12)
Diversity and Commonality in the Analysis of Talk (2002) (12)
Using sociocultural discourse analysis to analyse professional discourse (2019) (12)
Rational number and proportional reasoning in early secondary school: towards principled improvement in mathematics (2015) (11)
Researching the electronic classroom (1993) (11)
Education and the social brain: linking language, thinking, teaching and learning (2016) (11)
An analysis of the forms of teacher-student dialogue that are most productive for learning (2021) (10)
From Me to You: Austerity to Profligacy in the Language of the Beatles (2000) (10)
Accounts and the development of shared understanding in Employment Training interviews (1992) (10)
Language for teaching a language (2019) (9)
Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education: Research-based pedagogical development for student engagement and learning in early secondary-school physical science and mathematics (2010) (9)
Learning to learn: improving attainment, closing the gap at Key Stage 3 (2016) (9)
Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals) : The Development of Understanding in the Classroom (2013) (8)
Developing teaching with an explicit focus on scientific thinking (2016) (8)
Talk about texts: using ICT to develop children’s oral and literate abilities (2003) (8)
Jerome Bruner: Reflections of a Developmental Psychologist (2008) (8)
Developing a research-informed teaching module for learning about electrical circuits at lower secondary school level: Supporting personal learning about science and the nature of science (2015) (7)
Using the interactive whiteboard to scaffold pupils ' learning of science in collaborative group activity (2011) (7)
How do different types of schools prepare students for life at Cambridge? (2016) (6)
Dialogic Practices in Primary School Classrooms Language and Education , in press (2019) (6)
The social brain, language, and goal-directed collective thinking (2019) (6)
Revision by means of computer-mediated peer discussions (2010) (6)
Helping children to talk and think together more effectively (2003) (6)
Classroom talk and the development of self-regulation and metacognition (2019) (5)
21. Educational Dialogues (2013) (5)
Dialogue, thinking together and digital technology in the classroom (2019) (4)
Using interactive whiteboards to orchestrate classroom dialogue_unlinked (2010) (4)
Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard. (2007) (4)
Why Oracy Must Be in the Curriculum (and Group Work in the Classroom). (2015) (4)
Forms for talk and talk for forms: Oral and literate dimensions of language use in Employment Training Interviews (1993) (4)
Thinking together with ICT and primary mathematics (2005) (4)
Effective Educational Talk (1997) (3)
Reasoning as a scientist (2019) (3)
Persuasion, control and argument (2002) (3)
Dialogues for teaching and learning (2001) (3)
Interactive whiteboards : does new technology transform teaching? (2010) (3)
Implementing a New Mathematics Curriculum in England: District Research Lesson Study as a Driver for Student Learning, Teacher Learning and Professional Dialogue (2019) (3)
The analysis of classroom talk (2019) (3)
Research Note: The Talk, Reasoning and Computers Project (TRAC) (1997) (3)
Communication and control (2013) (3)
Language as a tool for thinking (2002) (2)
How does interaction help learning and development (2007) (2)
Community language and education (2019) (2)
English as a classroom language (2020) (2)
Oracy education (2019) (2)
Knowledge development in adult learning groups (1987) (2)
Second Language Acquisition and Writing: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. (2000) (1)
How dialogue with a teacher helps children learn (2007) (1)
Will psychological and sociological perspectives on science education ever be integrated? (2015) (1)
Researching Common Knowledge (2019) (1)
Developing a test of reasoning for preadolescents (2021) (1)
Learning to think together—and alone (2007) (1)
The effective use of talk in the classroom (2010) (1)
Psychological limitations on the production of speech (1973) (1)
Interactive Whiteboards and Classroom Interactions (2014) (1)
Orchestration with the interactive whiteboard: provisionality and permanence (2007) (1)
Context and continuity (2013) (1)
Spoken language in the classroom (2001) (1)
Commentary: The Future Development of Research on Classroom Talk (2012) (1)
Pre-print draft of Language for the social construction of knowledge: comparing classroom talk in Mexican pre-schools (1999) (1)
Introduction to the Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education (2019) (1)
Laying the foundations (2019) (0)
Language experience and educational attainment (1987) (0)
Oracy and the primary curriculum (2020) (0)
Time for learning: Classroom dialogue in its temporal context (2007) (0)
Ways of orientating to the minds of others (2002) (0)
Myths and Legends (1973) (0)
Teaching and learning English : a course for teachers (2000) (0)
Synchronous and asynchronous forms of computer mediated communication (2002) (0)
Responses to the commentaries by Jean-Yves Rochex, Jean-Charles Chabanne and Andrée Tiberghien (2016) (0)
Evaluating sociocultural theory in practice (2007) (0)
Frames of reference (2002) (0)
Conversational ground rules (2002) (0)
outputs Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard Conference Item (2016) (0)
The given and the new (2002) (0)
Promoting Mr. 'Chips': the Construction of the Teacher/Computer in Education Advertising (2000) (0)
The seeds of time (2019) (0)
Classroom dialogue and student attainment (2019) (0)
Educational technology from a sociocultural perspective: the case of the Interactive Whiteboard (2008) (0)
Introduction : how do people communicate? (1987) (0)
Kinds of common knowledge (2002) (0)
Scientific Ways with Words (1997) (0)
A pre-print draft of: Wegerif, R. and Mercer, N. (1997) A Dialogical Framework for Investigating Talk. In Wegerif, R. and Scrimshaw, P. (Eds) Computers and Talk in the Primary Classroom, pp 49-65. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN: 1853593915 (2010) (0)
Learning Over Time in a Ninth Grade Language Arts Classroom: The Social Construction of Collective Memories and Classroom Chronotypes (2008) (0)
Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard Conference Item (2012) (0)
New books (2001) (0)
Arguing your case (2002) (0)
Language and other systems for making context (2002) (0)
The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Talking and thinking together at Key Stage 1 Journal (2016) (0)
Language Events with two dimensions: The relationship between talking and writing as exemplified in a set of counselling interviews (1994) (0)
Approaches to classroom knowledge and talk (2013) (0)
Teachers’ voices, children’s voices: creating a dialogic classroom (2007) (0)
Cues to Retrieval from Long-Term Verbal Memory (1974) (0)
Gordon Wells, The meaning makers: children learning language and using language to learn , London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Pp. xv + 235. (1988) (0)
Neil Mercer (2008)- Making the most of classroom dialogue (2008) (0)
Using ICT to Improve Students' Revision of Physics Concepts through Co-construction and Prescriptive Tutoring: Results of a Pilot Study (2009) (0)
Connecting observations of student and teacher learning: an examination of dialogic processes in Lesson Study discussions in mathematics (2016) (0)
1 Coding classroom dialogue : Methodological considerations for researchers (2020) (0)
Learning to talk . Learnng to be literate (1987) (0)
The epiSTEMe project : Devising a pedagogical intervention to support development of a dialogic teaching approach to early-secondary-school mathematics and science (2012) (0)
In schools : a reader (1988) (0)
An Oracy Assessment Toolkit (2019) (0)
English at work (2020) (0)

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