Children of the Dispossessed: Far-West Preschoolers 30 Years on / Edition 2

by Barry Nurcombe, Susan-Lee Walker, Philip De Lacey

Overview

This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504217
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/12/1999
Series:	Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Series , #16
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

BARRY NURCOMBE is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, University of Queensland.

SUSAN-LEE WALKER is committee member and advisor to the Warrawong Child and Family Center.

PHILIP DE LACEY is part-time Associate Professor responsible for the experimental preschool program in Bourke, New South Wales. He was the first chairman of the Department of Education at the Wollongong University College of the University of N. S. W.. and subsequently of the University of Wollongong. His research interests include psychology in education, child development, early-enrichment and pre-literacy programs, ‘quality' in university education, atypical children.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction.
What is Intelligence
The Great Debate
Deprivation, Disadvantage, or Difference?
Early Childhood Education: Success or Failure?
Cultural Disadvantage in Australia
An Australian Preschool
Potential, Competence, and Performance-A Conceptual Framework
Questions and Assumptions
Principles and Practice
The Programs Achievements and Lessons
Appendices
References
Index