Would the concept of Emotional Intelligence (Goleman and others) be
applicable here?
In a message dated 10/21/02 11:04:33 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>I'm doing some research on the concept of "ability" as a category (as
>
>understood sort of like gender or race) and wonder if people know about
>any
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>relevant articles or books. If there are any treatments of what ability
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>"is", its history, how it is understood, etc. I'm especially interested
>in
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>how it has a strong moral component (ability is what gets you to succeed,
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>and if you succeed you must have ability, which means you must be better
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>than other people that don't succeed). My searches only bring up
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>positivistic, educational oriented stuff on students' ability.
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