Book excerpt: The Learning Sciences in Conversation explores the unique pluralities, complex networks, and distinct approaches of today's learning scientists. Focused on four key scholarly areas--transdisciplinarity, design, cognition, and technology--this cutting-edge volume draws on empirical and theoretical foundations to illustrate the directions, perspectives, methods, and questions that continue to define this evolving field. Contributions by researchers are put in dialogue with one another, offering an exemplary analysis of a field that synthesizes, in situ, various scholarly traditions and orientations to create a critical and heterogenous understanding of learning.