Intelligence, Destiny and Education: The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing

by John White

Book Overview

The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. However, there has been little investigation into the rise of the traditional dominant educational ideology that intelligence and IQ have innate limits and are unchanging and unchangeable. This book traces the roots of this mind set back to early puritan communities on both sides of the Atlantic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415368928
• ISBN13: 9780415368926
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"