Alicia Curtin is a Lecturer at the School of Education, University College Cork, Ireland, and researches and writes in the areas of learning, identity, assessment, neuroscientific perspectives on literacy, creative approaches to pedagogical design and innovative pedagogical research methods. Her work employs sociocultural theories to problematise and explore these central aspects of learning in ways highly relevant to education, teaching and our understanding of learning itself in all of its forms, inside the classroom and beyond.