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Examining the idea of intelligence in its diverse sociological and philosophical formations, Intelligence, Sapience and Learning explores the multiple and often complex meanings associated with the concept of intelligence, and its relationships with learning, curriculum and sapience. Scott and Leaton Gray explain a series of key concepts central to understanding the meta-concepts and practices of intelligence, learning and curriculum. These concepts include epistemology, free will and volition, hermeneutics, pragmatism, strong normative evaluations and pedagogy, amongst others. Focusing on six praxes that form a genealogy of the concept of intelligence, Scott and Leaton Gray argue for a re-framing of the concept and practice of intelligence, with profound consequences for how modern societies should be organised and how people should live their lives. This book is a follow-up to Women Curriculum Theorists: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity, and takes a fresh look at the concept and practice of intelligence. It will appeal to curriculum theorists and those with an interest in curriculum and learning matters, as well as those working in the philosophy and sociology of education.
List of contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Conceptual Framings 2. The Concept and Praxis of Intelligence 3. Technology, Intelligence and Learning 4. Artificial Intelligence 5. Surveillance Capitalism and Intelligence 6. Divisions and Categories - averages, probabilities and predictions 7. Online Learning Part 2: Praxes 8. Francis Galton and Eugenics 9. A Genealogy of the Intelligence Quotient 10. Cyril Burt and the Intelligence Testing Scandal 11. The 1944 Education Act and the Tripartite System of Education in the UK 12. A Brief History of the Internet 13. Intelligence, Sapience and Futuring
About the author
David Scott is Emeritus Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.
Sandra Leaton Gray is Associate Professor of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.
Summary
Examining the idea of intelligence in its diverse sociological and philosophical formations, Intelligence, Sapience and Learning explores the multiple and often complex meanings associated with the concept of intelligence, and its relationships with learning, curriculum and sapience.
