A Theory of Conceptual Intelligence - Thinking, Learning, Creativity, and Giftedness

List of contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
How It All Started and Where Are We?
A Critique of Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
The Thinking Dimension of Intelligence: Language and the Emergence of Thought
Intelligence in Progress: The Growth of Conceptual Thought
The Conceptual Learning Dimension of Intelligence
Extending Conceptual Thought and Conceptual Learning to New Frontiers: The Development of Creativity
Intelligence and Giftedness
References
Author Index
Subject Index

About the author

REX LI is Chairman of the Gifted Education Council, an international organization based in Hong Kong. He is Research Director of Asian Center for the Study of Giftedness, Board Chairman of the Mathematical Olympiad School and Director of the Supermind Institute of Hong Kong. He has published extensively in Chinese and English on gifted education.

Product details

• Authors: Rex Li, Li Rex
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1996
• EAN: 9780275953263
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95326-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 567 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Current Events and Issues: Education