Synopses & Reviews
This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.
About the Author
BARRY NURCOMBE is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, University of Queensland.SUSAN-LEE WALKER is committee member and advisor to the Warrawong Child and Family Center.PHILIP DE LACEY is part-time Associate Professor responsible for the experimental preschool program in Bourke, New South Wales.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction.
What is Intelligence
The Great Debate
Deprivation, Disadvantage, or Difference?
Early Childhood Education: Success or Failure?
Cultural Disadvantage in Australia
An Australian Preschool
Potential, Competence, and Performance-A Conceptual Framework
Questions and Assumptions
Principles and Practice
The Programs Achievements and Lessons
Appendices
References
Index