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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