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Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives: Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
Anna Sfard
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Description for Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives: Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
Paperback. This book looks to change our thinking about thinking by looking at communication and cognition, or commognition. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 b/w illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: JMR; PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 530. Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. 352 pages, 21 b/w illus. 12 tables. Looks to change our thinking about thinking by looking at communication and cognition, or commognition. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JMR; PBB. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight: 554.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521161541
SKU
V9780521161541
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About Anna Sfard
Anna Sfard's research focuses on the development of mathematical discourses in individual lives and in the course of history. In a series of studies in Israel, Canada, and the United States, she has been investigating the development of mathematical thinking in both history and individual learning. Results of these studies, both theoretical and empirical, have been published in more than ... Read more
Reviews for Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives: Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
'Sfard has provided us with one of the most impressive, unified, homogenous theories of learning ...' Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning [...] In her new book, Sfard describes, in detail, her views on thinking and learning. [...] The book also includes a glossary. Because some of the terms have been coined by the author, the glossary is, indeed, helpful. Overall, the ... Read more