Books written by Karen Littleton

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  Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work

  This book will be of great interest to academic researchers, postgraduates and undergraduates on Education and Psychology courses and to practicing teachers.

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  Making Sense of Social Development

  This book explores children's social relationships in and out of the classroom. Chapters focus on the growing importance of children's friendships and how these influence social participation and development later on in life.

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  Making Sense of Social Development

  Adolescents can tell their best friends all their secrets and problems. Intimacy also involves trust. Adolescents can tell secrets to friends without worrying that the friend will tell others. In addition, intimacy involves ...

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  Voices of Practice: Narrative Scholarship from the Margins

  This volume features educators who may not at first call themselves "academics" and who have focused their careers on the practice rather than the publishing of scholarship.

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  International Handbook of Psychology in Education

  This book focuses on typically developing school-age children, although issues relating to specific learning difficulties are also addressed.

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  Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

  Using examples of attachment theory and language development, this book takes a cultural approach to early development, looking at the way children learn through relationships and attain capacities for empathy and social understanding.

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  Learning Relationships in the Classroom

  The discursive practices in science classrooms differ substantially from the practices of scientific argument and enquiry that take place within various communities of professional scientists ; this is hardly surprising when one ...

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  Educational Dialogues: Understanding and Promoting Productive interaction

  Bringing together contributions from a wide range of internationally renowned researchers, this book will form essential reading for all those concerned with the use of dialogue in educational contexts.

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  Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

  This is the first of three readers which have been specially prepared as readers for the Open University MA Course: ED840 Child Development in Families, Schools and Society.

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  Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

  Drawing upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives, this book examines: Orchestration of inquiry learning and instruction Trajectories of inquiry learning Designing for inquiry learning Scripting personal inquiry Collaborative and ...

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  Learning Relationships in the Classroom

  This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relationships for children's learning and for educational practice.

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  Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions

  Contrary to the belief that computers isolate users, Karen Littleton and Paul Light demonstrate that learning with computers is often a collaborative and social activity.