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9780805832518

Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805832518

  • ISBN10:

    0805832513

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

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Martinez defines intelligence from a cognitive perspective as a repertoire of those skills, strategies, and knowledge structures that are most instrumental in human effectiveness. He posits that in today's complex, fast-paced, technologically dense, and information-rich society, intelligence is the supreme human resource. The current social context not only demands intelligence, but rewards it economically, psychically, and in other ways. His central argument in this book is this: The intellectual abilities that are crucial to modern life, including economic viability and effectiveness in daily living, correspond to the cognitive functions that are reasonably called intelligence; these intellectual abilities are learnable; we now know enough about the structure and mechanisms of intelligent thought and behavior to teach them directly. Martinez explicates his argument and provides research-based evidence to support his claim.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I: INTRODUCTION
The Age of Intelligence
1(10)
PART II: WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?
Psychometric Models
11(10)
Information-Processing Models
21(12)
Emergent Models
33(24)
A Model of Learnable Intelligence
57(20)
PART III: CAN INTELLIGENCE BE LEARNED?
Genetics and the Plasticity of Intelligence
77(21)
The Race Question
98(14)
Intelligence and Experience
112(35)
Interventions That Enhance Intelligence
147(26)
PART IV: LEARNABLE INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIETY
Cultivating Intelligence
173(15)
Prospects for an Intelligent World
188(5)
References 193(22)
Author Index 215(10)
Subject Index 225

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