ABSTRACT
Scientific Inquiry into Human Potential explores the intellectual legacy and contemporary understanding of scientific research on human intelligence, performance, and productivity. Across nineteen chapters, some of the most eminent scholars of learning and psychology recount how they originated, distinguished, measured, challenged, and adapted their theories on the nature and nurture of human potential over decades of scientific research. These accessible, autobiographical accounts cover a spectrum of issues, from the biological underpinnings and developmental nature of human potential to the roles of community, social interaction, and systematic individual differences in cognitive and motivational functioning. Researchers, instructors, and graduate students of education, psychology, sociology, and biology will find this book not only historically informative but inspiring to their own ongoing research journeys, as well.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|48 pages
Evolutionary and Differential Perspectives on Human Potential
part 2|62 pages
Cognitive and Developmental Perspectives
part 3|72 pages
Perspectives on Human Creativity
chapter 10|14 pages
Human Potential at the Achievement Pinnacle
chapter 12|13 pages
Female Teacher/Researcher
chapter 13|13 pages
Business as Unusual
part 4|64 pages
Educational and Social Perspectives