Affirmative Development - Cultivating Academic Ability (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Contemporary American Education Series
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Edmund W. Gordon • Beatrice L. Bridglall
Contributors:	Joshua A. Aronson • Albert Bennett • Ana Marie Cauce • Howard T. Everson • Elena L. Grigorenko • James G. Greeno • Carol D Lee • Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Dimensions:	303 x 161 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-1658-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology
LSN:	0-7425-1658-X
Barcode:	9780742516588

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