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Intelligence turns out to be a difficult topic, for reasons that aren't at all obvious at first. Our understanding of mental ability has been captured in several independent threads of research that are surprisingly oblivious of each other for the most part. Our stereotypes of the gifted and the ungifted often miss the details of what is going on. The study of individual differences in general, while useful, doesn't just de-emphasize, but actually systematically misses some of the most important things going on when people become exceptionally successful contributors.
The author of Ungifted is well situated to make an important contribution to our understanding of intelligence. He has made a deep academic study of a wide span of existing research programs, he has worked directly in collaboration with many of the leading researchers in several related fields, he has passionately engaged these ideas since childhood when he became painfully aware of the academic sorting process for giftedness, and he himself is a wonderful example of many of the principles that emerge in his new book.
This is not another book that just starts out with a vague progressive vision of education and ability that everyone is a potential "genius" and then fills it in with wishful thinking. No, this is a book that dives very deeply and realistically into the literature of psychometrics, heritability, cognitive neuroscience, and expertise. It looks closely at patterns from the span of phenomena of human differences including savantism, prodigy, autism, schizophrenia, personality, g factor, motivation, and creativity.
Ungifted is so compelling, rich, and significant a book for me that most of it was well worn by the end of the first day it arrived.Read more ›
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
As other reviewers have noted, Ungifted is part personal story, part professional opinion, and lots of reviewed and summarized research.
As for the research, this book is not an easy, engaging layperson's read along the lines of Bronson and Merryman's Nurture Shock, which I also enjoyed. In Ungifted, be prepared for some intellectual heavy lifting at times. The author is reviewing and summarizing tons of studies, painting a picture as complex as the topics he covers, as well as highlighting areas where more research is needed to answer remaining mysteries. When he was talking about something I wasn't that interested in, I became a bit bored slogging through all the material. But when it was a topic I was interested in, I appreciated every last drop of the information. Having read this cover to cover, I'd advise readers who find themselves in the midst of a topic they're not as interested in as others to just skim along a bit. You don't need to digest everything to understand the overall points he's making.
When it comes to the author's personal story and informed opinions, this has got to be one of the most likeable authors whose work I've ever read -- a mix of humility, vulnerability, compassion, determination, intelligence, humor and great accomplishment. Throughout the book are instances where what researchers know and what happens in practice to students are at odds. The author's personal story illustrates many lessons learned from the research he reviews on the landscape of human intelligence and achievement, but he's also enough of an exception to some of those correlations to serve as a vivid reminder that all should be encouraged and supported.Read more ›
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There are several buzz words that go around in academic circles - I know because as chair of the Psychology Department at SUNY New Paltz, I live there (in academic circles). People like to talk about "pedagogy," "student-centered learning," "interdisciplinarity," "active learning," "service learning," and so on. One of the core buzzwords within modern academia is this - DIVERSITY. In modern higher education, we are to "embrace diversity" - even if we don't exactly know that that means.
Scott Barry Kaufman knows what it means to genuinely embrace diversity. With a prestigious PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Yale, and a research background in the broad diversity that characterizes the human cognitive mind (including various conscious and various non-conscious processes), Dr. Kaufman is a true expert on the nature of real and meaningful psychological diversity.
Ungifted is Dr. Kaufman's gift to the world. In captivating, accessible, and genuinely written prose, Dr. Kaufman takes us on a tour of issues related to diversity in cognitive processes - by summarizing his own experiences as being labeled with learning disorders in childhood to summaries of the most cutting-edge research from the juggernaut that is the modern literature on individual differences in cognitive processes and mechanisms.
With an eye toward helping us deconstruct and question modern methods of teaching and learning, Ungifted leads the reader through the story of a young man who started the educational process as being labeled as "learning disabled" and in need of special services - to completing his PhD in cognitive psychology at Yale - under the tutelage of Robert Sternberg, perhaps the best-known and most significant living academic psychologist.
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