Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing

by Anna Sfard

Book Overview

This book contributes to the current debate about how to think and talk about human thinking so as to resolve or bypass such time-honored quandaries as the controversy of nature vs. nurture, the body and mind problem, the question of learning transfer, and the conundrum of human consciousness. The author responds to the challenge by introducing her own "commognitive" conceptualization of human thinking. She argues for this special approach with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521161541
• ISBN13: 9780521161541
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"