Li-Fang Zhang

The Value of Intellectual Styles

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first comprehensive and systematic review of international research on the value of intellectual styles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781107082779
• ISBN-10: 1107082773
• Artikelnr.: 47974056

Autorenporträt

Li-fang Zhang is Professor of Psychology and Education at The University of Hong Kong. She has published dozens of academic book chapters and books, and is the (co)author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and encyclopedic entries. Two of her award-winning monographs are entitled The Malleability of Intellectual Styles (Cambridge, 2013) and The Nature of Intellectual Styles (with Sternberg, 2006). Professor Zhang serves as Associate Editor of both the Journal of Educational Psychology and Educational Psychology, and is an editorial board member of several other psychology and education journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. General Introduction: 1. Motivation for this book; Part II.
Empirical Evidence: Two Classic Variables and Intellectual Styles: 2.
Distinguishing intellectual styles from intelligence and personality; 3.
Creativity and intellectual styles; Part III. Empirical Evidence: Academic
Settings: 4. Intellectual styles in student learning processes and
developmental outcomes; 5. Intellectual styles of school teachers and
university academics; Part IV. Empirical Evidence: Non-Academic Settings
and Style Preferences: 6. Intellectual styles in the workplace; 7.
Intellectual styles among the mentally and physically disadvantaged; 8.
Explicit and implicit intellectual style preferences; Part V. Concluding
Remarks: 9. Conclusions, limitations, future directions, scientific
significance, and practical implications; Epilogue.