The idea of IQ / Russell Marks.

  • Marks, Russell.
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[1981], ©1981
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    in the dominant social and scientific ideas of the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. It attempts to demonstrate the complex relationship be¬ tween socioeconomic reality and the emergence ot edu¬ cational ideas. Third, the work seeks to provide the first major reformulation of the nature-nurture ques¬ tion in several decades. Finally, with this re(fiormu- lation, certain interpretative issues are dissolved and a fresh description of twentieth-century educa¬ tional reforra is advanced. The last chapter, The Idea of Human Potential, is more than simply a sum¬ mary of the analysis, as it seeks to provide direction for an alternative formulation of intelligence. The ideas in this book have evolved over a long period of time. Conceptually, I have particularly benefited from the writings of Peter Berger, R. G. CollingWood, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and R. D. Laing. In developing and completing this project, I am heav¬ ily indebted to the friendship and scholarship of Clarence Karier, Paul Violas, and B. Edward McClellan. They have provided invaluable dialogue and meticulous readings of several drafts of the ùianuscript. Walter Feinberg, Joe Burnett, and Hal Pepinsky read chapters of earlier drafts and provided useful suggestions. Additionally, I have benefited greatly from discussions with graduate students at the University of Illinois and Indiana University. I also got useful feedback on this work in papers I presented at the American Educa¬ tional Research Association, the American Education Studies Association, and the History of Education So¬ ciety. The Spencer Foundation provided a research grant that especially aided me in completing Chapters 3, 4, and 5. My wife and three-year-old daughter, each in her own way, provided support and recognized the im¬ portance of this project to me. Foremost, however, this book is dedicated to my parents, Russell H. Marks and Dorothea Wheeler Marks, who have always taken ideas, even their children's, seriously. -X-