Rethinking Intelligence

Abstract

O Problema da InteligênciaA maioria das pessoas demonstra ter uma compreensão bastante clara e precisa do. que é "inteligência". De fato, basta perguntar a praticamente qualquer um algo sobre o assunto, que ele, ou ela, rapidamente, e sem a menor hesitação, começará a enu-1 Artigo recebido para publicação era março de 2002; aceito em junho de 2002

Smartness as a Cultural Practice in Schools

“…My work builds on Kincheloe et al’s (1999) critique by offering an ethnographic understanding of how smartness operates as a verb or an active construct on students and teachers within schools. I place smartness as initially located outside students—culturally produced—before moving through students as spoken discourse and embodied practice.…”

“…In my work, admittedly partial as well, I attempt to fill this void, pushing the questioning of intelligence/smartness into new domains. Kincheloe, Steinberg, and Villaverde (1999) argue we need to rethink ''smartness'' in schools because…”

“…[a]n understanding of power's complicity in the production of society's validated knowledge, its educational knowledge in particular, is essential information for racially, ethnically, and economically marginalized students who are trying to figure out why they are deemed slow and incompetent in the schools they attend. (p. 11) My work builds on Kincheloe et al's (1999) critique by offering an ethnographic understanding of how smartness operates as a verb or an active construct on students and teachers within schools. I place smartness as initially located outside students-culturally produced-before moving through students as spoken discourse and embodied practice.…”