Networks of mind [electronic resource] : learning, culture, neuroscience / Kathy Hall, Alicia Curtin and Vanessa Rutherford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : making the case for examining sociocultural theory and neuroscience -- 2. Defining brain -- 3. The making of minds -- 4. The making of culture -- 5. A heuristic for avoiding a totalizing concept of culture -- 6. Making connections : learning and pedagogy -- 7. Constructing success and failure -- 8. Explaining talent : opportunity to learn -- 9. #Language -- 10. Emotion : my many coloured days -- 11. Coming to mind : telling the story of memory and identity -- 12. Sociocultural and neuroscientific metaphors for understanding learning -- 13. Tensions and struggles over explanations for learning : resisting a neurobiological take over -- 14. Conclusion : claiming science.