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Intelligence, Sapience and Learning, part 1: making sense of our world

By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 24 July 2024

2D conceptual illustration of a human head and brain surrounded by a rocket, plants; a bullseye board, a trophy, etc.

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By David Scott and Sandra Leaton Gray on 24 July 2024

We have just published a book about some key educational concepts, with the title: Intelligence, Sapience and Learning: Concepts, Framings and Practices. These concepts are a central consideration for educators at IOE or at least we feel that they should be. In a companionate book – Women Curriculum Theorists: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity – we looked in a similar way at the relations and connections between the concepts and practices of ‘woman’, ‘learning’ and ‘curriculum’. Social categories of gender, race, religion, dis-ability, sexuality and class are other examples of key life-defining concepts. Our new book seeks to shed light on the workings of these social categories because a proper examination of them is an essential starting point for understanding how the world and objects in that world are arranged and ordered. (more…)