Gordon Wells
Author of The Meaning Makers: Children Learning Language and Using Language to Learn
About the Author
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 show more fostering dialogic inquiry as an approach to learning and teaching at all levels, based on the work of Vygotsky and other sociocultural theorists. 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. show less
Works by Gordon Wells
Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) (1999) 18 copies
Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (2002) 16 copies
Action, Talk, and Text: Learning and Teaching Through Inquiry (Practitioner Inquiry, 16) (2000) 6 copies
The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 15) (2009) 6 copies
Author's Handbook, The 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1935-02-10
- Gender
- male
- Birthplace
- Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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