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In this book, Robert J. Sternberg aims to expand the way readers think about intelligence. The goal is to get 'inside intelligence' - to describe what it is, how it works, and how the lives we live can actually increase or decrease it.
List of contents
Dedication; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. What is intelligence? A panoply of views; 3. Intelligence as the broad ability to adapt to the environment; 4. Why general intelligence may be unhelpful, or detrimental, in times of instability, and for that matter, other times as well; 5. History of the theory of adaptive intelligence; 6. Measurement and teaching of adaptive intelligence; 7. Why do people persist in species-suicidal beliefs and practices and what's to be done?; 8. The great adaptive intelligence test.
About the author
Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is a past winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards of the Association for Psychological Science.
Summary
A world-renowned expert on human intelligence argues that societies continue to use a flawed, early twentieth-century conception of human intelligence. Instead of focusing on narrow academic skills, we should adopt the values of 'adaptive intelligence,' defined as the use of talent in service of the common good.
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'This book gives a new and practical meaning to what it really means to be intelligent in today's complex world.' Joseph S. Renzulli, Director of the Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development and Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut, USA
