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Research Note: The Talk, Reasoning and Computers Project (TRAC)
Author(s) -
Wegerifau R.,
Mercer N.,
Littleton K.,
Dawes L.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2729.1997.00008.x
Subject(s) - library science , educational psychology , citation , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , computer science
The Economic and Social Research Council have funded the Talk, Reasoning and Computers (TRAC) research project for an eighteen month period starting in July 1996. The project will focus on the use of computers as a support for reasoning through talk in the primary classroom. Through this focus it will explore further both the relationship between language and thinking and the role of computers within education understood as a primarily discursive process. The project will be directed by Neil Mercer and based at the Centre for Language and Communications at the Open University. The project team, who are named above, will be supported by an advisory panel including academics and representatives of national bodies concerned with relating research to practice. This panel will consist of: Charles Crook, Loughborough University; Don Rowe, Citizenship Foundation; Francis Howlett, National Council for Educational Technology and Eileen Scanlon, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University.