ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, we showed how culture as theorized by neuroscientists appeals to biology, geographical boundaries and discrete divisions between groups. They tend to adopt a totalizing view of culture as their starting point in their empirical studies, thus oversimplifying cultural differences. Arising from the narrowness of their definition of culture we believe it lacks the kind of vision and elaboration that would be helpful in an understanding and promotion of learning. Despite overtures to the work of socioculturalists, neuroscientists make the assumption that cognition takes place solely in individual heads; brains actually. Contexts are not elaborated in their view of culture. Culture, according to Jerome Bruner, is biology's last great evolutionary trick. If this is so, then educators and researchers need to adopt as rich a view of it as possible.
