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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 10
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Knowing Your Mind: Teachers, Students and the Language of Ability
Yarker, Patrick
FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, v53 n2 p225-234 2011
This article considers how pervasive remains the idea of fixed innate ability in relation to state education, and criticises on ethical and other grounds the language of ability as currently heard.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Classification, Academic Ability, Ethics, School Effectiveness, Sociolinguistics, Teacher Expectations of Students, Expectation, Cognitive Development, Criticism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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