Rethinking Intelligence: Confronting Psychological Assumptions About Teaching and Learning

This text challenges the theories on which the practice of educational psychology is based. The contributors offer a theoretical and historical critique of how intelligence is measured, and claim that current theories exclude or ignore many indicators of intelligence. Suggesting criteria upon which new models can be developed, the contributors hope to encourage educators and researchers to imagine new forms of intelligence, education and life.

Table of Contents:
Philip Wexler-Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Joe L. Kincheloe--The Foundations of a Democratic Educational Psychology Chapter 2 Aimee Howley, LindaSpatig and Craig Howley--Developmentalism Deconstructed Chapter 3 Pepi Leistyna--The Personality Vacuum: Abstracting the Social from the Psychological Chapter 4 Susanne Gallagher--An Exchange of Gazes Chapter 5 Lana Krieves and Karen Anijar--Eugenics, Evolution, and Deaf Education Chapter 6 Aostre Johnson--Teaching as Sacrament Chapter 7 Paul Stein--Practicing Eternity: Socialization, Development, and Social Life Chapter 8 Gaile Cannella--Postformal Thought as Critique, Reconceptualization, and Possibility for Teacher Education Reform Chapter 9 Anna Watts Pailliotet and Thomas A. Callister Jr.--Preparing Postformal Practioners: Pitfalls and Promises Chapter 10 MarcPruyn--The Power of Classroom Hegemony: An Examination of the Impact of Formal and Postformal Teacher Thinking in an Inner-city Latina/o School Chapter 11 John Weaver and Ronald McClendon--Informally Speaking: A Continuing Dialogue on Postformal Thinking Chapter 12 JoeL.Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg--Politics, Intelligence, and The Classroom: Postformal Teaching Chapter 13 Leila Villaverde and WilliamPinar--Postformal Research: A Dialogue on Intelligence Conclusion

About the Author :
Shirley R. Steinberg teaches at Adelphi University. She is author of Ain't We Misbehavin'?: A Pedagogy ofMisbehavior and co-author of The Stigma of Genius:Einstein and Beyond Modern Education and with Joe L. Kincheloe, of Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, NewCurriculum. Joe L. Kincheloe teaches Cultural Studies and Pedagogy at Penn State University. He is author of Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Paths to Empowerment and Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers and theIntegration of Academic and Vocational Education. They are authors of Unauthorized Methods: Strategies forCritical Teaching (Routledge, 1998) and editors of Taboo:The Journal of Culture and Education. Leila Villaverde teaches at Penn State University.

Review :
"This volume sparkles with the critical and creative energy of scholars and educators whose primary concern is with education that serves students on their own grounds, and helps our society realize the riches of diversity. It's jut this kind of work that enables us to see that psychological assumptions are always born of socio-political context, and that we can never rest content with the pedagocial status quo." -- Kenneth J. Gergen, Swarthmore College "The editors of this volume have set themselves an awesome task in challenging the fundamental assumptions of psychology. In short they 'politicize cognition,' something that has been largely ignored but is desperately overdue. This book should be read by all who have an interest in matters educational." -- --John Smyth, Foundation Professor of Teacher Education and Director, Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching, Flinders University of South Australia