Affirmative Development Cultivating Academic Ability

According to Edmund W. Gordon and Beatrice L. 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 and raised in these cultures tend to do well in school, while those who are not exposed to such cultures tend to 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 scholastic achievement. Book jacket.Gordon, Edmund W. is the author of 'Affirmative Development Cultivating Academic Ability', published 2006 under ISBN 9780742516588 and ISBN 074251658X.