Networks of Mind: Learning, Culture, Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780415683753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 230 str.

Kathy Hall

Opis

This ground breaking book is unique in bringing together two perspectives on learning, sociocultural theory and neuroscience, to draw out and foreground important developments in our understanding of what learning is, where and how learning occurs and what we can do to understand learning as an everyday process.

Spis treści

Introduction  1: Making the case for examining sociocultural theory & neuroscience  2. Defining Brain  3. The Making of Minds  4. The Making of Culture  5. A Heuristic for Avoiding a Totalising Concept of Culture  6. Making Connections, Learning and Pedagogy  7. Constructing Success and Failure  8. Explaining Talent: Opportunity to Learn  9. # Language 209  10. Emotion: My Many Coloured Days  11. Coming to Mind  12. Sociocultural and Neuroscientific Metaphors  13. Tensions and Struggles over Explanations for Learning  14. Conclusion: Claiming Science

O autorze

Kathy Hall is Professor and Head of the School of Education, University College Cork.

Alicia Curtin is Lecturer in the School of Education, University College Cork.

Vanessa Rutherford  is Research Fellow in the School of Education, University College Cork.