Introduction: principles of a human sciences approach to research on learning / Kevin O'Connor and William R. Penuel - Educational research as a reflexive science of constitution / Martin Packer - Values that occasion and guide mathematics in the family / Roy Pea and Lee Martin - Studying identity in learning contexts from a human sciences perspective / Na'ilah Suad Nasir - Interpreting the meanings of schooling, hybridity, and multicultural citizenship in diaspora communities / Sunil Bhatia - Learning as a member's phenomenon: toward ethnographically adequate science of learning / Reed Stevens - A Co-construction perspective on organizational change and educational reform / Hugh Mehan, Lea Hubbard and Amanda Datnow - Conceptualizing and tracing learning pathways over time and setting / Brigid Barron - A Dialogical epistemology of educational evaluation / William R. Penuel - The passions of learning in tight circumstances: towards a political economy of the mind / Ray McDermott - Learning as the organizing of social futures / Kevin O'Connor and Anna-Ruth Allen - Expansive learning as production of community / Line Lerche Mørck - Political and cultural dimensions of organizing learning around funds of knowledge / Nancy Ares - Teacher-researcher collaboration as a human science / Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Lezlie Salvatore Dewater and Keiko Kawasaki - Lesson study as a human science / Catherine C. Lewis, Kiyomi Akita and Manabu Sato - Productive tensions in youth participatory action research / Ben Kirshner - "You can't get there from here": research and redirection / Suzanne de Castell and Jennifer Jenson.