interthink

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ think; term apparently coined by Neil Mercer in 1995.

Verb

interthink (third-person singular simple present interthinks, present participle interthinking, simple past and past participle interthought)

  1. (intransitive) To use talk to think collectively, to engage with others' ideas through oral language.
    • 2002 Mercer, Neil, "Developing Dialogues." In Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton, eds. Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
      That is, exploratory talk represents a way in which partners involved in problem-solving activity can use language to think collectively -- to 'interthink' effectively, with their activity encapsulated in an intermental zone of their own construction.
    • 2015 Knight, Simon and Littleton, Karen. “Thinking, Interthinking, and Technological Tools.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking, edited by Rupert Wegerif, Li Li, and James C. Kaufman, Routledge, 2015.
      This power, we argue, lies in the ways in which dialogue is used to interthink – that is, to think together, to build knowledge co-constructively through our shared understanding.

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