'Engaging Minds' involves readers in an exploration of teaching and learning. Prompting examinations of the complexities of learning, pedagogy, and schooling, it interrupts the assumptions and norms that frame popular understandings and refuses simplistic notions of unresolvable tensions.

First ed. published: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

pt. A: KNOWING -- 1. Knowing Frames: Examining the commitments in knowledge claims -- 2. Knowing Looks: The biological and cultural roots of perception -- 3. Knowing Acts: (De)constructions of normality and development -- 4. Knowing Structures: Research into embodied memory and knowledge -- -- pt. B: LEARNING -- 5. Learning Frames: Complexity thinking as the study of learning systems -- 6. Learning Positions: Historical and contemporary perspectives on learning -- 7. Learning Minds: Intelligence, creativity, diversity, and collectivity -- 8. Learning Forms: Technology and the structures of thought and culture -- -- pt. C: TEACHING -- 9. Teaching Frames: Historical and emergent conceptions of teaching -- 10. Teaching Challenges: Inclusive and critical perspectives on teaching -- 11. Teaching Conditions: Reframing the pragmatics of pedagogy in complex terms -- 12. Teaching Encounters: The ethical dimensions of a life that includes teaching.