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Intelligence, Destiny and Education - The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing (Hardcover, and ED)
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Intelligence, Destiny and Education - The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing (Hardcover, and ED)
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Intelligence - what it is and how it can be measured - is something
that has exercised psychologists, educationalists, biologists and
philosophers for hundreds of years. For many philosophers of
education, justification of the most dominant theory - that
intelligence has innately determined upper limits - appears
inadequate.
In "Intelligence, Destiny and Education," John White passes the
baton from philosophy to history as he traces some of the social
and historical influences on modern ideas about human capabilities.
He focuses on the influence that he believes puritan ideas and
assumptions have had on the psychological conceptions of
intelligence as innate. Drawing on the work of Galton, Pearson,
Burt, Goddard, Terman, and others, in his search for the truth
about intelligence testing, he looks at the personal histories and
social religious assumptions and backgrounds of these key
psychologists.
John White's concern is that in these test-orientated times a
system of intelligence testing based on the eugenicists' theory of
intelligence could lead to an educational caste system in which the
task of education gives way to the doctrine of predestination. This
fascinating book will appeal to all those involved in education.
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