Thinking Styles
- Author: Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
- Date Published: January 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521553162
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In our society, the recognition of talent depends largely on idealized and entrenched perceptions of academic achievement and job performance. Thinking Styles bucks this trend by emphasizing the method of our thought rather than its content. Psychologist Robert Sternberg argues that ability often goes unappreciated and uncultivated not because of lack of talent, but because of conflicting styles of thinking and learning. Using a variety of examples that range from scientific studies to personal anecdotes, Sternberg presents a theory of thinking styles that aims to explain why aptitude tests, school grades, and classroom performance often fail to identify real ability. He believes that criteria for intelligence in both school and the workplace are unfortunately based on the ability to conform rather than learn. He takes the theory a step further by stating that 'achievement' can be a result of the compatibility of personal and institutional thinking styles, and 'failure' is too often the result of a conflict of thinking styles, rather than a lack of intelligence or aptitude. Sternberg bases his theory on hard scientific data, yet presents a work that remains highly accessible.
Read more- Controversial topic, this provocative volume explains why aptitude tests, school grades, and classroom performance often fail to identify real ability
- Highly accessible, presents understandable theory based on scientific data
- Offers readers the chance to assess themselves and compare scores to normative data
- Sternberg is well-known and highly respected figure, especially in education field. Author of Intelligence, Heredity and Environment (1997), Successful Intelligence (1996), Defying the Crowd (1985), and The Triarchis Mind (1988)
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- Date Published: January 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521553162
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 161 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Nature of Thinking Styles:
1. What are thinking styles and why do we need them?
2. Functions of mental self-government
3. Forms of mental self-government
Part II. The Theory of Mental Self-government:
4. Levels, scope, and leanings of mental self-government
5. Principles of styles of thinking
6. The development of thinking styles
7. Thinking styles in the classroom: what have we learned?
Part III. Thinking Styles in Home, School, and Society:
8. A capsule history of theory and research on styles
9. Why a theory of mental self-government?
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