Affirmative Development : Cultivating Academic Ability
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0742516598
ISBN-13
9780742516595
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2006
Print length
310 Pages
Weight
467 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.40 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Educational psychology
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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. This book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability.
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.
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