Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence

• Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. The Age of Intelligence. Part II: What Is Intelligence? Psychometric Models. Information-Processing Models. Emergent Models. A Model of Learnable Intelligence. Part III: Can Intelligence Be Learned? Genetics and the Plasticity of Intelligence. The Race Question. Intelligence and Experience. Interventions That Enhance Intelligence. Part IV: Learnable Intelligence and Society. Cultivating Intelligence. Prospects for an Intelligent World.

"Martinez provides a meaningful discussion of the importance of experience in the development of intelligence in a technology-dominated world....Just as Richard J. Herrnstein's The Bell Curve had an impact on the hereditarian position of intelligence, conversely Education as the Cultivation of Intelligence has the potential to have an equal influence on the development of intelligence as a liberator. This volume is an exceptional resource for persons interested in the development of intelligence and as a supplemental text for undergraduate or graduate students."—CHOICEIn Education as the Cultivation of Intelligence, Michael E. Martinez moves beyond the nature versus nurture dichotomy to offer a compelling view of intellectual development that accords with the best and most recent research....What is so refreshing about this book is that the author has thoroughly explored and assimilated the diverse research that is used as the basis for either/or claims."—APA Review of Books"This is a very good title, and an impressive piece of work....The book has a warm, positive tone, with echoes of McV. Hunt...the book is a significant achievement."—British Journal of Educational Psychology"Martinez's thesis--that education involves the cultivation of intelligence--is a powerful one....He addresses an important and hot topic in educational psychology."—Richard MayerUniversity of California, Santa Barbara