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Anna Sfard

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Anna B. Sfard is a retired Israeli psychologist of mathematics education, focusing on the roles of communication and reification in mathematical reasoning. She introduced commognition, a theory of learning that defines thinking as communicating with oneself, in a 2008 book. She claims that mathematics, like any other domain of knowing, is a historically established discourse and that learning mathematics is the process of becoming a participant in that discourse. She is a professor emerita of Mathematics Learning Sciences at the University of Haifa.

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Sfard (Hebrew: אנה ספרד) is a retired Israeli psychologist of mathematics education, focusing on the roles of communication and reification in mathematical reasoning.
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She introduced commognition, a theory of learning that defines thinking as communicating with oneself.
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Commognition is a theory of thinking and learning in learning sciences research, introduced by Anna Sfard in 2008 book.
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