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New Kinds of Smart: How the science of learnable intelligence is changing education

Drawing from research in neuroscience, this short and very readable book sets out to demolish standard myths about intelligence, such as that intelligence is fixed and solely related to IQ. It also provides guidance to educators in developing intelligence in students.

Here's an extract from the book that explains its structure:

The book works like this. It has eight core chapters, each of which follows a similar format:

A specific piece of research which illustrates the theme of the chapter.

Getting to grips with. An overview of scientific and educational research relevant to the chapter.

Starting out. Examples of what schools that are just beginning to work with the ideas in the chapter are doing.

Going deeper. More advanced examples of the ways in which schools are working with the ideas in the chapter.

Ideas into practice. Questions to prompt thinking, reflection,discussion, action and further reading.