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    Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity
    Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity
    Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity
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    Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity

    By Alison Willis PhD

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    The current generation of parents is under constant pressure to find ways to maximise the intelligence of their children as they prepare them for an unknown future. In Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity, Alison Willis, PhD, presents the latest research from the forefronts of education, psychology, and science in a series of concise anecdotes and pictures that are easy to understand.
    This artistic expression of Williss work and findings brings together years of academic research and study, her experience as a teacher and lecturer, and lessons gained from interacting with other cultures. Her quest has been to understand the human condition of learning; fundamentally, learning is a human trait, so understanding its essence will allow parents to better equip their children for the future. In addition to her professional interests, Willis has the grounding that parenthood affords, enabling her to intimately understand the needs of students and their parents throughout the educational process.
    Nurturing Intelligence is designed to reduce the angst that parents experience concerning their childrens opportunities and success as it brings clarity to the topics of intelligence, learning, and education.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateMay 2, 2013
    ISBN9781452571324
    Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity
    Author

    Alison Willis PhD

    ALISON WILLIS, PHD, is an educational researcher, university lecturer, classroom teacher, and mother. She has worked with a diverse range of teachers and students from many different cultures and levels of education. Alison lives on the Sunshine Coast in Australia with her husband, Daniel, and two children.

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      Book preview

      Nurturing Intelligence - Alison Willis PhD

      9781452571317_TXT.pdf

      www.alisonwillis.org

      Copyright© 2013 Alison Willis, PhD

      Front cover: Sand dunes in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-7131-7 (sc)

      978-1-4525-7132-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013906064

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Created in the United States of America

      Balboa Press rev. date: 04/29/2013

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Intelligence

      Mindsets

      Learning

      Environment

      Language

      Experience

      Education

      Creativity

      Technology

      Exercise

      Esteem

      Love

      For Emma and Beth,

      our heavenly heritage.

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      Introduction

      A series of conversations sparked my intrigue. They could have been everyday chit-chats, but somehow there was a thread that was tying them all together. The thread was tugging me towards a journey of inquiry.

      A seemingly innocent comment stopped me in my tracks. So, do you sit down and teach her? I was a young mother. In a previous life, I had been a high school English teacher. So it seemed an appropriate question: did I take time to sit with my daughter so she could learn?

      Still, I was astounded that learning was perceived to occur when a child was sitting down, a teacher was actively transferring knowledge, and prescribed activities were being administered. I filed this conversation in the significant compartment of my mind.

      Many years have gone by and my quest to understand intelligence and learning continues. Nurturing Intelligence: How to Encourage Learning and Develop Capacity is an artistic expression of my work and findings that brings together years of academic research and study, experience as a teacher and lecturer, and lessons learnt from travelling to and mixing with other cultures to observe learning. I formally studied

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