1st Edition
Intelligence, Destiny and Education The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing
By John White
Copyright 2006
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. However, there has been little investigation into the rise of the traditional dominant educational ideology that intelligence and IQ have innate limits and are unchanging and unchangeable. This book traces the roots of this mind set back to... Read more
1. An unexplained theory of intelligence 2. Parallels 3. Origins 4. Logic and mind 5. Knowledge and the curriculum 6. Contemporary perspectives
Biography
John White is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Awarded 2nd Prize for the 2007 Society for the Educational Studies Book Award
