| Affirmative Development: Cultivating Academic Ability Contributor(s): Gordon, Edmund W. (Author), Bridglall, Beatrice L. (Author), Aronson, Joshua A. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 074251658X ISBN-13: 9780742516588 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $137.61 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to develop such ability by the conditions under which they live. The book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability and reviews of the research evidence for the feasibility and morality of such action. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Educational Psychology - Education | Multicultural Education |
| Dewey: 370.111 |
| LCCN: 2006019287 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Contemporary American Education |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: According to Gordon and Bridglall, the ability to learn is more of a developed human capacity than a fixed aptitude with which one is born. They argue that the emergence of academic ability is associated with exposure to specialized cultures that privilege the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that schools reward. Children who are born to and raised in these cultures tend to do well in school, while those who are not exposed to such cultures tend seldom rise to high levels of academic achievement. Through a collection of interesting essays, Affirmative Development: Cultivating Academic Ability attempts to address how we can deliberately develop academic ability in those children who are not raised under conditions that predispose them to develop high levels of academic ability. |