The Value of Intellectual Styles

AvLi-fang Zhang

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Intellectual styles are individuals' preferred ways of using their abilities. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review of existing research on the value and desirability of different intellectual styles. By critically analyzing findings from hundreds of international studies undertaken over eight decades, Li-fang Zhang demonstrates that the creativity-generating Type I styles are generally superior to the norm-conforming Type II styles in relation to a wide range of learning processes and developmental outcomes, work performance, physical and mental health, and many other domains of people's lives. She further demonstrates that people explicitly and implicitly express their preference for Type I styles over Type II styles. Professor Zhang elucidates the practical value of cultivating diverse intellectual styles, especially Type I styles, in both academic and nonacademic settings, and lays the groundwork for future research to advance the field of intellectual styles and to inform scholarly work in other academic disciplines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-03
Mått:153 x 228 x 27 mm
Vikt:662 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:409
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107443204

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Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Li-fang Zhang is Professor of Psychology and Education at The University of Hong Kong. She has published dozens of academic book chapters and books, and is the (co)author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and encyclopedic entries. Two of her award-winning monographs are entitled The Malleability of Intellectual Styles (Cambridge, 2013) and The Nature of Intellectual Styles (with Sternberg, 2006). Professor Zhang serves as Associate Editor of both the Journal of Educational Psychology and Educational Psychology, and is an editorial board member of several other psychology and education journals.

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'Given her contributions to the field of intellectual styles, today Professor Zhang is a true leader of this field. This book is the most recent overview of the field; it presents its current status and sets the standards and parameters for its development.' Elena L. Grigorenko, Yale University, Connecticut

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. General Introduction: 1. Motivation for this book; Part II. Empirical Evidence: Two Classic Variables and Intellectual Styles: 2. Distinguishing intellectual styles from intelligence and personality; 3. Creativity and intellectual styles; Part III. Empirical Evidence: Academic Settings: 4. Intellectual styles in student learning processes and developmental outcomes; 5. Intellectual styles of school teachers and university academics; Part IV. Empirical Evidence: Non-Academic Settings and Style Preferences: 6. Intellectual styles in the workplace; 7. Intellectual styles among the mentally and physically disadvantaged; 8. Explicit and implicit intellectual style preferences; Part V. Concluding Remarks: 9. Conclusions, limitations, future directions, scientific significance, and practical implications; Epilogue.