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educability

(SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION) the capacity to benefit from formal education, assumed to be affected by differences in patterns of child rearing and physical support.

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As proposed in the following section, the notions of employability and educability are seen as keys to measuring the supposed ability of individuals and, thus, to explain the social positions that they occupy.

Struggling for knowledge in times of cognitive capitalism: youth and school in contexts of urban poverty

There appear to be fewer deconstructions of "the child" of developmentalism, perhaps because most critics of childhood and culture work within academic institutions and themselves have significant investments in the educability of young people.

Ignorant and innocent: The Childs of common cultural discourses

In terms of educability, Valencia (1997) states that educators frequently attribute school failure to students, and success to themselves.

Teacher perceptions of their efficacy for special education referral of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

In the 1890s, as the first generation of lycee-and normal-school-educated females reached their twenties, as the French birthrate sputtered and deaths sometimes exceeded births, (4) and as the feminist movement flowered, arguments about the female role in society became more truculent and the question of women's educability and cerebral capacity resurfaced in texts prescribing normative femininity.

Physiological fictions and the fin-de-siecle female brain

This pedagogical mission was a deeply human, all absorbing enterprise, based as it was on the belief of such individuals as the seventeenth-century bishop and author, Francois Fenelon, in the reformability, and the educability of the human being.

"As a bird flies": the writings of Marie Barbier, seventeenth and eighteenth century Montreal woman religious and mystic

EDUCATION PERFORMANCE AND EDUCABILITY IN PERU OF THE XXI CENTURY

Resultado educativo y educabilidad en el Peru del siglo XXI (parte final)

There is a significant relationship between consideration and inherent and incremental intelligence; commitment and incremental: educability and contextual; coordination with educability and contextual; expectation and incremental.

The role of invitational education and intelligence beliefs in academic performance

An unpublished English translation of a paper by Binet called 'The Educability of Intelligence' ...

Scot Danforth. (2009). The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities

1696-1723) proposed her ideal curriculum of women's conversation, Bathsua Makin (1600-1675) wrote An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues (1673), in which she argued against custom and for the educability of women.

"Women kept ignorant on purpose to make them slaves": Bathsua Makin's orthodox voice in the literary history of early British feminism/Kadinlar kole yapilmak icin bilerek bahil birakildilar": Bathsua Makin'in erken Britanya feminizminin edebi tarihindeki ortodoks sesi

I suppose that Freire would have appreciated this because I think he meant that educability is an attitude as much as it is the outward manifestations of pedagogy.

A comma-fused past: relating to the mistakes of tutees

Identifying characteristics of early experience that related to educability, she developed an intervention designed to offset the cumulative deficits for these three-year-olds, targeting language, concept development, and motivation.

Use the science of what works to change the odds for children at risk: the federal government should heed seven essential principles when it invests in breaking the cycle of disadvantage

Educability: Public policy and the role of research.

Using time delay to teach literacy to students with severe developmental disabilities