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  • Intelligence, Destiny, and Education
  • Written by author John White
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., May 2006
  • 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 ideolo
  • 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
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Authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. An unexplained theory of intelligence

Two shapers of an educational system

Robert Morant

Cyril Burt

Burt, Galton and intelligence

The oddness of the Galtonian conception of intelligence

Intelligence as intellectual

Intelligence as general

Intelligence as innate

Intelligence as limited

How did Galtons conception come about? His eugenic project

Burt takes up Galtons baton


The Galtonian project in the USA

H.H.Goddard

Lewis Terman

The intelligibility gap: why Galtonianism?

Why the emphasis on abstract thinking?

Why the preoccupation with examinations and tests of ability?

Why the polarised interest in extremely high and extremely low ability?

Why the grandiosity?

Why does the trail stop in 1865?

Conclusion


2. Parallels

Intelligence and predestination

Puritanism in Britain and America

Britain

America

Parallels

Predestination

Heredity and innateness

Salvation and damnation

The work ethic

Vocation

Family, equality and equality of opportunity

Education

Race

Gender

Conclusion

3. Origins

Francis Galton

Cyril Burt

Other British psychologists

US psychologists of intelligence: Goddard and Terman

Other American psychologists

More recent psychologists in Britain and USA

Pastores thesis and the question of counterexamples

Jean Piaget

Robert Morant

Conclusion

4. Logic and mind

Intelligence as abstractintellectual ability

Where did Galtonianism come from?

Ramist logic and the Puritan mind

Logic in the Dissenting Academies

Pneumatology in the Dissenting Academies

Logic and mind in Scotland

Logic and Mind in America

Back to Galton

Conclusion

5. Knowledge and the curriculum

The Dissenting Academies and the roots of the traditional academic curriculum

Ramus and the Puritan curriculum

Doubts about the role of the Dissenting Academies

The Puritan curriculum in Scotland

The story through to 1988

The traditional academic curriculum today

Timetabling

Examinations

John Dewey and the traditional curriculum

Conclusion

6. Contemporary perspectives

Dissent in politics

Intelligence and education

The Gifted and Talented

The school curriculum today

Success in life

Personal fulfilment

Conclusion

Conclusion


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