- Hardcover: 246 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (Oct 6 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521802385
- ISBN-13: 978-0521802383
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,259,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Sternberg recognizes the limitations of traditional testing and approaches the definition of intelligence from a very pragmatic perspective...Sternberg's focus on success in the real world is refreshing, and his book is powerful in its scope." Teachers College Record
"Sternberg's engaging writing style and his references to cross-cultural examples and contemporary events will help readers understand such complex topics as the 'explicit' and 'implicit' aspects of his topics' interrelationships. He closes this admirable book by describing how wisdom-related skills can be included in school curricula; the case he makes in a time 'plagued with conflict aand turmoil' is hard to refute. Highly recommended." Choice
"Sternberg's engaging writing style and his references to cross-cultural examples and contemporary events will help readers understand such complex topics as the 'explicit' and 'implicit' aspects of his topics' interrelationships. He closes this admirable book by describing how wisdom-related skills can be included in school curricula; the case he makes in a time 'plagued with conflict aand turmoil' is hard to refute. Highly recommended." Choice
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For thirty years, Robert J. Sternberg has been among the most vocal critics of narrow conceptions of intelligence. In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized Sternberg critically reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take account of peoples' creative abilities - their ability to go beyond given information and imagine new and exciting ways of reformulating old problems. It must also take into account peoples' ability to weigh options carefully and act prudently. Understanding one's own intellectual shortcomings and learning how to overcome, Sternberg argues, is just as important as developing one's strengths. As he weaves his way through decades of important research on these questions, Sternberg develops a vision of human intelligence that is far more nuanced and accurate than anything previously offered. Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized is essential reading for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, and organizational researchers.
Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. Prior to being at Tufts, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management in the School of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. This center, now relocated to Tufts, is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing the notion of intelligence as developing expertise, as a construct that is modifiable and capable, to some extent, of development throughout the lifespan. Author of over 1,100 articles, chapters, and books, Sternberg's research focuses on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he has studied love and close relationships as well as hate.
Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Tufts University. Prior to being at Tufts, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management in the School of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. This center, now relocated to Tufts, is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing the notion of intelligence as developing expertise, as a construct that is modifiable and capable, to some extent, of development throughout the lifespan. Author of over 1,100 articles, chapters, and books, Sternberg's research focuses on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he has studied love and close relationships as well as hate.
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A synthesis of a contribution not a synthetic model, Jan 11 2007
By Maria Joao Afonso - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized (Hardcover)
The book is a very good synthesis of Sternberg's work about intelligence, creativity and wisdom (a good option for someone who is not yet familiar with it) but it provides nothing but a combination of the previous contributions of the author. Its emphasis on the broadening of the concept of intelligence is not new in Sternberg's work. The main issue of the book is neither the relationships between the concepts, as I was expecting judging by the title, nor the new levels of analysis and explanation that could have emerged from those relationships. In the last chapter I felt really disappointed because it finished even before I thought it had started...
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Useful history of the contested concept of "intelligence", July 22 2008
By Howard Aldrich - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized (Paperback)
I enjoyed Sternberg's history of the concept & how people have fought over what to measure and how to measure it. "Intelligence" turns out to be quite a loaded notion! I found Sternberg's distinction between analytic, creative,and practical intelligence very helpful. It helped me understand why people with a high measured analytic intelligence sometimes fall short of what we think they could achieve.
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GOOD BUT WANTED MORE, Sep 7 2007
By Peter Jeans "PJ" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized (Hardcover)
A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION. BUT AS AN EDUCATOR I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE TOOLS THAT HE USES TO MEASURE THE DIFFERENCE INTELLIGENCES - AS WELL AS MORE MATERIAL ON HOW TO USE THIS IN THE CLASSROOM - GUESS I WILL HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER OF HIS BOOKS FOR THIS... ONE DAY.Added Jan 2010
Perhaps the most useful reason to buy the book is that it broadens ones perspective of intelligence is... or could be. Sometimes those who are academically adept are not able to function when other aspects of intelligence are called upon to get the job done. Sternberg presents another way of looking at intelligence in terms of:
Intelligence - more or less what one would expect it to be
Wisdom- a type of social/organisational situational awareness where one assesses whether you should persist to bring about change, change yourself or exit an organisation/problem or situation
Creativity - going beyond what currently is - various levels of this are discussed.
Considering we are in an age dominated by educational testing, data collection and analysis to determine who should be promoted, or accepted into university, or who a good teacher is etc, this book is informative in that it challenges us to question the basic assumption behind all measures of 'intelligence' and the exams/test derived from such assumptions are valid.
However even the very notion of the tri-archic intelligence promoted by Mr. Sternberg should also be in question. Basically intelligence is a construct developed by psychologists - and the notion of what it is and what it means has been a matter of considerable debate for a long time.
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder- and Sternberg has invented, tested and validated his own version of it... equally as valid I guess as many other notions.
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