LEARNING MYSTIQUE - Hardcover

Coles, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394548981 ISBN 13: 9780394548982

Publisher: Pantheon, 1987

Challenging biological explanations for the problems faced by almost two million children labeled as "learning disabled," the author examines learning processes and concludes that the key to learning difficulties is found in social and environmental setting, not biological

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About the Author:

Gerald Coles is an educational psychologist and a former professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at “Learning Disabilities” and Reading Lessons: The Debate Over Literacy, and numerous articles on education.

From Publishers Weekly:

During the past two decades, children who fail to master their early grade-level work have been diagnosed as "learning disabled" because of "minimal neurological dysfunctions." A vast subcultureresearch programs, professional papers, etc.supported by educators, psychologists and doctors has developed to provide treatment and remediation for the inexplicable conditions. Yet, as Coles points out in this important critique, there is little concrete, scientific evidence to prove the condition exists as described. By proposing an alternative theory, one that focuses on a variety of social and familial relationships experienced by children, as well as individual neurological differences that are not necessarily dysfunctions, Coles challenges the educational establishment. His findings must be considered by educators and others concerned about children who fail to thrive in the classroom. Coles is professor of clinical psychology at the Robert Wood Johnson (formerly Rutgers) Medical School in New Jersey.
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