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According to Gordon and Bridglall, the ability to learn is more of a developed human capacity than a fixed aptitude with which one is born. They argue that the emergence of academic ability is associated with exposure to specialized cultures that privilege the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that schools reward. Children who are born to and raised in these cultures tend to do well in school, while those who are not exposed to such cultures tend seldom rise to high levels of academic achievement. Through a collection of interesting essays, Affirmative Development: Cultivating Academic Ability attempts to address how we can deliberately develop academic ability in those children who are not raised under conditions that predispose them to develop high levels of academic ability.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Educational psychology

• Full title: Affirmative Development
• Subtitle: Cultivating Academic Ability
• Author: Edmund W. Gordon, Beatrice L. Bridglall
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 310
• EAN: 9780742516588
• ISBN: 074251658X
• ID: 04904538
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 303 × 161 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. December 2006

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