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16 - Intelligence, Education, and Society
from Part IV - Applications of Intelligence Research
Summary
Education is the cultivation of human intelligence. This optimistic view of intelligence has a long history in education and in society (Martinez, 2000), but how would you actually implement this idea based on research evidence and cognitive theories of how people learn? In short, to the extent that intelligence, or cognitive ability, is malleable, what role can education play in ensuring that all students reach their full intellectual potential? As summarized in Table 16.1, this chapter explores three ways of implementing this provocative proposal: (1) helping students develop learning strategies for academic learning, (2) helping learners build expertise in cognitive processing needed for academic tasks, and (3) helping students acquire transferable domain knowledge that they can use in new situations.
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- Human IntelligenceAn Introduction, pp. 443 - 466Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019