Learning and practice : agency and identities / edited by Patricia Murphy and Kathy Hall.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Curriculum: the case for a focus on learning / Robert McCormick, Patricia Murphy -- Neuroscience and education / Usha Goswami -- Meaning / Etienne Wenger -- Thinking with the tools and institutions of culture / Barbara Rogoff -- A sociocultural analysis of organistional learning / Nick Boreham, Colin Morgan -- Gender issues in testing and assessment / Jannette Elwood -- Portfolios and assessment in teacher education in Norway: a theory-based discussion of different models in two sites / Olga Dysthe, Knut Steinar Engelsen -- Participationist discourse on mathematics learning / Anna Sfard --Literacies and masculinities in the life of a young working-class boy / Deborah Hicks -- Positional identities / Dorothy Holland ... [et. al] -- Gender and subject cultures in practice / Patricia Murphy -- Science education as/for participation in the community / Wolff-Michael Roth, Stuart Lee -- Growing up digital: how the web changes work, education and the ways people learn / John Seely Brown.