Akadémia Kiadó

Intelligence is a peculiar human characteristic intensively cared for by the public. According to the results of IQ-tests people can be graded on the basis of their abilities and can be placed on a graph of normal distribution. For one group of intelligence researchers the “bell-shaped” curve proves that intelligence is primarily inherited. At the same time IQ-measurement is interlinked with school as the significant socializing institution of civil state from the beginning. It has never been doubtful that IQ and education depend on each other, the question is how. Is it possible that school and society rewarding school results merely states, stabilizes and quantifies the differences between individual talents? Is there any opportunity for the institutional compensation of individual talents? In this volume the reader can meet the thorough and versatile investigation of the above questions. Our authors outline the history of the measurement of intelligence and the up-to-date issues of the polemic, theoretical problems of the environmental impacts of individual development, the latest results of genetics, a hypothesis of school's intelligence forming effects and some other topics in connection with intelligence. We recommend our book to those who are interested in the present dilemmas, viewpoints of psychology and social politics, and we hope that the published papers will inspire new discussions and ideas.