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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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In keeping with the idea of employability, the notion of educability has been used to explain those aspects of the personality that require the efforts of subjects deemed unemployable, first in order to learn and then, of course, to procure employment:
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
Even many years after these 1890s debates on female educability, writing in her Pourquoi je ne suis pas feministe of 1928, Rachilde's tendency is still to see female analytical abilities compromised by monthly hormonal changes: "Les femmes sont les freres inferieurs de l'homme simplement parce qu'elles ont des miseres physiques les eloignant de la suite dans les idees" (10).
Physiological fictions and the fin-de-siecle female brain
Whatever educators' opinion about IQ and its practices, I guess that educators cannot help but be shocked and wonder how educational history may have changed had Binet's The Educability of Intelligence been readily available in 1911.
Scot Danforth. (2009). The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities
Miller finds that Makin's male voice is part of her desire for consubstantiality, an inclusion with the governing group, in order to achieve credibility and a willing audience for her unconventional assertion of women's educability.
"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
He found them in crowded residences with over twice the number of people you might expect in a typical household, their children's intelligence bordering only on educability (79 I.
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
We must believe in the educability of parents as well as their children.
Comparing Black, Hispanic, and White mothers with a national standard of parenting
It is as if no one had ever invented writing or that human educability did not exist.
Estelle Brodman: educator extraordinaire
A discussion follows with regard to the lack of scientific evidence for the educability of EI, and the Perez Juste (2006) model for educational program evaluation is recommended as a point of reference.
Propuesta para la evaluacion de programas de educacion socioemocional
Books 3 and 5 of Paradise Lost are studied for the relationship of educability to "merit" in them.
Thomas Festa. The End of Learning: Milton and Education
He provided living proof of the educability of Africans, thereby reinforcing arguments against slavery.
Ira Aldridge at Covent Garden, April 1833
The critical stumbling block was not the educability of women but rather male notions of social stability.
"Race" and gender in non-Durkheimian French sociology, 1893-1914
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