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Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2013). Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work. London: Routledge.

Mercer, Neil and Littleton, Karen (2007). Dialogue and the development of children's thinking: a sociocultural approach. London, UK: Routledge.

Goodman, Sharon; Lillis, Theresa; Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil (2003). Language, literacy and education: A reader. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books in association with The Open University.

Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. (2007). Learning English. London, UK: Routledge.

Maybin, Janet; Mercer, Neil and Hewings, Ann eds. (2007). Using English. London, UK: Routledge.

Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2013). Educational dialogues. In: Hall, Kathy; Cremin, Teresa; Comber, Barbara and Moll, Luis C. eds. International Handbook of Research on Children’s Literacy, Learning and Culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 291–303.

Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2012). Communication, collaboration and creativity: how musicians negotiate a collective ‘sound’. In: Hargreaves, David; Miell, Dorothy and Macdonald, Ray eds. Musical Imaginations: Multidisciplinary perspectives on creativity, performance and perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 233–241.

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Mercer, Neil; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen and Twiner, Alison (2011). Interactive whiteboards: does new technology transform teaching? In: Ludvigsen, Sten R.; Lund, Andreas; Rasmussen, Ingvill and Säljö, Roger eds. Learning across sites: new tools, infrastructures and practices. London: Routledge, pp. 346–363.

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Mercer, Neil (2002). Developing dialogues. In: Wells, Gordon and Claxton, Guy eds. Learning for life in the 21st century. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp. 141–153.

Mercer, Neil (2001). Spoken language in the classroom. In: Mesthrie, Rajend ed. The Concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (9). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Pergamon, pp. 749–752.

Mercer, Neil and Dawes, Lyn (2001). Dialogues for teaching and learning. In: Banks, Frank and Shelton Mayes, A eds. Early professional development for teachers. London: David Fulton in association with the Open University, pp. 142–158.

Jones, Ann and Mercer, Neil (1993). Theories of learning and their implications. In: Scrimshaw, Peter ed. Language, Classrooms and Computers. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 11–28.

Maybin, Janet; Mercer, Neil and Stierer, Barry (1992). 'Scaffolding': learning in the classroom. In: Norman, Kate ed. Thinking Voices: The work of the National Oracy Project. London: Hodder & Stoughton, pp. 186–195.

Maybin, Janet; Edwards, Derek and Mercer, Neil (1988). Putting the context into oracy: The construction of shared knowledge through classroom discourse. In: Maclure, M; Phillips, T and Wilkinson, A eds. Oracy Matters. English language and education series. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp. 122–134.

Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil (1981). Community, language and education. In: Mercer, Neil ed. Language in School and Community. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 77–89.

Knight, Simon and Mercer, Neil (2016). Collaborative Epistemic Discourse in Classroom Information Seeking Tasks. Technology, Pedagogy and Education

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Knight, Simon and Mercer, Neil (2015). The role of exploratory talk in classroom search engine tasks. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 24(3) pp. 303–319.

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Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen; Mercer, Neil and Twiner, Alison (2007). A “learning revolution”? Investigating pedagogic practices around interactive whiteboards in British Primary classrooms. Learning, Media and Technology, 32(3) pp. 243–256.

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Wegerif, Rupert; Littleton, Karen; Dawes, Lyn; Mercer, Neil and Rowe, Denise (2004). Widening access to educational opportunities through teaching children how to reason together. Westminster Studies in Education, 27(2) pp. 143–156.

Mercer, Neil; Dawes, Lyn; Wegerif, Roger and Sams, Claire (2004). Reasoning as a scientist: ways of helping children to use language to learn science. British Educational Research Journal, 30(3) 359 -377.

Mercer, Neil; Fernandez, Manuel; Dawes, Lyn; Wegerif, Rupert and Sams, Claire (2003). Talk about texts: using ICT to develop children’s oral and literate abilities. Reading, 37(2) pp. 81–89.

Mercer, Neil (2002). Diversity and commonality in the analysis of talk. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 11(2-3) pp. 369–371.

Fernandez, Manuel; Wergerif, R.; Mercer, Neil and Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia (2001). Re-conceptualising 'scaffolding' and the Zone of Proximal Development in the context of symmetrical collaborative learning. Journal of Classroom Interaction, 36(2) pp. 40–54.

Selwyn, Neil; Dawes, Lyn and Mercer, Neil (2001). Promoting Mr. 'Chips': the construction of the teacher/computer relationship in educational advertising. Teaching and Teacher Education, 17(1) pp. 3–14.

Rojas-Drummond, S.; Mercer, N. and Dabrowksi, E. (2001). Collaboration, scaffolding and the promotion of problem-solving strategies in Mexican pre-schoolers. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 16(2) pp. 179–196.

Littleton, K. and Mercer, N. (2009). Communication, collaboration and creativity: how musicians negotiate a collective 'sound'. In: European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction Conference, Aug 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2008). Educational technology from a sociocultural perspective: the case of the Interactive Whiteboard. In: ISCAR, 8-13 Sep 2008, San Diego, USA.

Twiner, Alison; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith; Littleton, Karen and Mercer, Neil (2007). Orchestration with the interactive whiteboard: provisionality and permanence. In: ALT-C 2007: Beyond Control: Association of Learning Technologies Conference, 4-6 Sep 2007, Nottingham, UK.

Littleton, Karen; Twiner, Alison; Gillen, Julia; Kleine Staarman, Judith and Mercer, Neil (2007). Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard. In: Developing Potentials for Learning 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, 28 Aug - 1 Sep 2007, University of Szeged, Budapest.

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Mercer, Neil; Gillen, Julia; Littleton, Karen and Kleine Staarman, Judith (2006). A learning revolution? Investigating the pedagogic practice around interactive whiteboards in British pprimary schools. In: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference, Apr 2006, San Francisco.