Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence (Volume in the Educational Psychology Series)

Martinez defines intelligence from a cognitive perspective as a repertoire of those skills, strategies, and knowledge structures that are most instrumental in human effectiveness. He posits that in today's complex, fast-paced, technologically dense, and information-rich society, intelligence is the supreme human resource. The current social context not only demands intelligence, but rewards it economically, psychically, and in other ways. His central argument in this book is this: The intellectual abilities that are crucial to modern life, including economic viability and effectiveness in daily living, correspond to the cognitive functions that are reasonably called intelligence ; these intellectual abilities are learnable; we now know enough about the structure and mechanisms of intelligent thought and behavior to teach them directly. Martinez explicates his argument and provides research-based evidence to support his claim. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 The Age of Intelligence PART II: WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? Chapter 2 Psychometric Models Chapter 3 Information-Processing Models Chapter 4 Emergent Models Chapter 5 A Model of Learnable Intelligence PART III: CAN INTELLIGENCE BE LEARNED? Chapter 6 Genetics and the Plasticity of Intelligence Chapter 7 The Race Question Chapter 8 Intelligence and Experience Chapter 9 Interventions That Enhance Intelligence PART IV: LEARNABLE INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIETY Chapter 10 Cultivating Intelligence Chapter 11 Prospects for an Intelligent World References Author Index Subject Index In the fast-paced, technology-dense world indwelled by much of the earth's population, the supreme human resource is intelligence. Michael E. Martinez. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 193-214) And Indexes.