Third World Urbanization

Intelligence, Instruction, and Assessment shows how modern theories of intelligence can be directly applied by educators to the teaching of subject matter, regardless of the age of the students or the content being taught. It is intended primarily for teachers at all levels--elementary, secondary, tertiary--who want to apply in their classrooms what we know about intelligence. The focus is not on modifying students' intelligence, per se, but on increasing their disciplinary knowledge and understanding. Hence, this book will help teachers learn how they can teach more effectively what they are already teaching. The assumption is that what teachers care most about is how they can improve upon what they are already doing, and how they can learn what they need to do in order to be more effective in their work. The contributors are well known for their work on intelligence and education. Each chapter includes an accessible explanation of the author's theory of intelligence, and discusses the implications of that theory both for instruction and for assessment. The book is international in scope, reflecting both American and European perspectives. Anyone interested in knowing how modern theories of intelligence can be applied to education will want to read this book--particularly teachers and other education specialists, as well as developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers with an interest in applying psychological theory to classroom practice. It will serve well as a text for courses on educational psychology, intelligence, cognition and instruction, and foundations of teaching.

Table of Contents:

Section I: Cities and InequalityIntroduction1. An Arab philosophy of history: Selections from the Prologema of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332-1406)2. The Prince and the Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli3. The city, the division of labor and the emergence of capitalism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels4. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, V.I. LeninSection II: Past and PresentIntroduction5. Daily life in China on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276, Jacques Gernet6. The condition of working-class in England, Friedrich Engels7. The home of man, Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson)8. Urban Latin America: the political condition from above and below, Alejandro Portes9. Patterns of urbanization and socio-economic development in the third world: an overview, Richard Hay Jr.Section III: New Theories on Third World DevelopmentIntroduction10. On the sociology of national development: theories and issues, Alejandro Portes11. Dependency: a critical synthesis of the literature, Ronald H. Chilcote12. Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa - origins and contemporary forms, Samir AminSection IV: Problem Manifestations in Urbanization: Regional ImbalancesIntroduction13. The geography of modernization: paths, patterns and processes of spatial change in developing countries, Edward W. Soja and Richard J. Tobin14. Colonialism and the spatial structure of underdevelopment: outlines of an alternative approach, with special reference to Tanzania, D. Slater15. Center and periphery in the development process: the case of Peru, Bryan R. RobertsMigration in Rural AreasIntroduction16. Rural-urban mobility in South and Southeast Asia: different formulations... different answers?, T.G. Mcgee17. The political sociology of cityward migration in Latin America: Toward empirical theory, Wayne A. Cornelius, Jr.18. The African crowd in Nairobi: popular movements and elite politics, Frank FurediJobs and Class StratificationIntroduction19. The life of a Jakarta street trader, Lea Jellinek20. The persistence of the proto-proletariat: occupational structures and planning of the future of third world cities, T.G. McGee21. International corporations, labor aristocracies and economical development in tropical Africa, Giovanni Arrighi22. Contrasts and continuity in a dependent city: Kano, Nigeria, Paul M. LubeckHousing, Squatting and the Self-Help PrincipleIntroduction23. Squatting and squatters, Charles Abrams24. Hooverville - a community of homeless men, Donald Francis Roy25. The case of 'The People Vs. Mr. Urbano Planner Y Adminstrador', May Racelis Hollnsteiner26. Development alternatives for the Peruvian Barriada, Diego Robles Rivas27. Housing-settlement types, arrangements for living, proletarianization and the social structure of the city, Anthony LeedsSection V: Goals and PoliciesIntroduction28. Declaration of Principles, HABITAT: united nations conference on human settlements29. Policies, planning and institutions, HABITAT: United Nations conference on human settlements