Author

Publication

2008-02-29 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

90,000 words, Guess

Page Count

360 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007018212
  • LibraryThing4650917
  • Goodreads4869035

Classifications

  • LCCQA42 .S43 2008

Description

"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-honored thinking-communicating dichotomy is epitomized 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."--Jacket.

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