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interthinking

interthinking is the present participle and gerund of interthink.

Meaning of interthink

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.
    • 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.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.

Noun

interthinking (usually uncountable, plural interthinkings)

  1. (usually) The action of two or more people who interthink together.
    • 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.2013 Karen Littleton and Neil Mercer, Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work, Routledge, London, 2013. (Abstract)
    • It explores the nature of children's creative interthinking in vivo, as it unfolds during carefully scaffolded ongoing classroom activities.2014, Eva Vass et al., “The affectively constituted dimensions of creative interthinking”, in International Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 66 (2014): 63-77

Forms of interthinking

pluralinterthinkings

Questions about interthinking

What does interthinking mean?
Interthinking means the action of two or more people who interthink together.
What is interthinking the present participle and gerund of?
Interthinking is the present participle and gerund of interthink.
What part of speech is interthinking?
Interthinking is a noun.
What is the plural of interthinking?
The plural of interthinking is interthinkings.

Words near interthinking in the dictionary

  1. interthecal
  2. intertheoretical
  3. intertheoretically
  4. intertheory
  5. interthink
  6. interthinking
  7. interthinks
  8. interthoracic
  9. interthought
  10. interthread
  11. interthreaded

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