Interthinking: Putting talk to work

By Karen Littleton, Neil Mercer. 2013

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Interthinking: putting talk to work explores the growing body of work on how people think creatively and productively together. Challenging purely individualistic accounts of human evolution and cognition, its authors provide analyses of real-life examples of collective thinking in everyday settings including workplaces, schools, rehearsal spaces and online environments. The authors use socio-cultural psychology to explain the processes involved in interthinking, to explore its creative power, but also to understand why collective thinking isn’t always productive or successful. With this knowledge we can maximise the constructive benefits of our ability to interthink, and understand the best ways in which we can help young people to develop, nurture and value that capability.

Subfields: Urban Studies

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In Urban Studies

1. R. Beghetto
2. Neil Mercer

Citations in the corpus

• Creative Learning: A Fresh Look (2016, background): “This is similar to what Littleton and Mercer (2013) have described as establishing an intermental creativity zone (ICZ).”
• 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, background): “(Georgina writes down option number 1 on the answer sheet, which is correct) (Adapted from Rojas-Drummond & Mercer, 2004, p. 109) Some aspects of their reasoning may not be clear to a reader, because they sometimes (and appropriately enough) rely on pointing to a pattern to support their arguments; ”