THINKING AS COMMUNICATING by Anna Sfard ( 9780521161541 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THINKING AS COMMUNICATING
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, THE GROWTH OF DISCOURSES, AND MATHEMATIZING

By:

Anna Sfard

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521161541

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9780521161541

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 February, 2010

Series:

Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

Pages:

352

Description:

This book looks to change our thinking about thinking by looking at communication and cognition, or commognition.

Synopsis:

This book is an attempt to change our thinking about thinking. Anna Sfard undertakes this task convinced that many long-standing, seemingly irresolvable quandaries regarding human development originate in ambiguities of the existing discourses on thinking. Standing on the shoulders of Vygotsky and Wittgenstein, the author defines thinking as a form of communication. The disappearance of the time-honoured thinking-communicating dichotomy is epitomised by Sfard's term, commognition, which combines communication with cognition. The commognitive tenet implies that verbal communication with its distinctive property of recursive self-reference may be the primary source of humans' unique ability to accumulate the complexity of their action from one generation to another. The explanatory power of the commognitive framework and the manner in which it contributes to our understanding of human development is illustrated through commognitive analysis of mathematical discourse accompanied by vignettes from mathematics classrooms.

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21 b/w illus. 12 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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