Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 420 Publisher: Camidge. University Press This book is an attempt to change our Thinking about Thinking and Anna Sfard undertakes this task convinced that many long-standing. Seemingly irresolvable quandaries regarding the Human Development originate in ambiguities for 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 t...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This book looks to change our thinking about thinking by looking at communication and cognition, or commognition. This book is an attempt to change our thinking about thinking. Anna Sfard undertakes this task convinced that many long-standing...

  • ASDA

    Looks to change our thinking about thinking by looking at communication and cognition or commognition.

  • 0521161541
  • 9780521161541
  • Sfard Anna
  • 22 February 2010
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 350
  • 1
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