Debating Educability: Diverging Social Representations of Abilities in Finnish Educational Discourse

Autor/in	Räty, Hannu
Titel	Debating Educability: Diverging Social Representations of Abilities in Finnish Educational Discourse
Quelle	In: Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 17 (2014) 3, S.457-469 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1381-2890
DOI	10.1007/s11218-014-9260-z
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Parent Attitudes; Surveys; Comparative Analysis; Intelligence; Nature Nurture Controversy; Gifted; Discourse Analysis; Academic Education; Fathers; Genetics; Mothers; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elternverhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Umweltdebatte; Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Diskursanalyse; Akademische Bildung; Humangenetik; Mother; Mutter; Finnland
Abstract	By surveying a representative sample of Finnish parents, this study set out to compare two social representations of intelligence current in our educational discourse: the established one, "the idea of natural giftedness", and an emerging one, "the idea of the multifariousness of abilities and support for social equality." It was found that the parents' social positions and their views on the malleability of intelligence contributed to their endorsement of the two representations. The idea of natural giftedness was endorsed particularly by academically educated fathers and those viewing intelligence as a genetically determined capability, while the idea of the multifariousness of abilities and support for social equality was endorsed by mothers and those with the view that intelligence can be developed through practice. It was suggested that these two polemical representations appear to embody opposite views in regard to the deeprooted controversy between nature and nurture and reproduce the basic cultural separation between the abilities of "head" and "hand". (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10