Reasoning Serves Argumentation in Children

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Developing Norms of Argumentation: Metacognitive, Epistemological, and Social Dimensions of Developing Argumentive Competence (2013, background): “Arguing is central to reasoning, perhaps even its central objective (Mercier & Sperber, 2011; Mercier, 2011; Oaksford, Chater, & Hahn, 2008).”
Developing Dialogic Argumentation Skills: A 3-year Intervention Study (2014, background): “The ability to generate and evaluate sound arguments has received increasing recognition as fundamental to good thinking (Mercier, 2011; Mercier & Sperber, 2011; Moshman, 2011) and as an educational goal.”
Handbook of Epistemic Cognition (2016, background): “ArgumentAtIve reAsonIng from A developmentAl perspectIve The scant evidence of research regarding the argumentative reasoning skills of young children suggests that even very young children have some competence in weighing and producing simple arguments (see Mercier, 2011, for a review).”
The Nature and Development of Critical-Analytic Thinking (2014, background): “errors presumably because they engage in less reasoning (Mercier 2011).”