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ISBN 10: 113567096X
ISBN 13: 9781135670962
Author: Michel Ferrari

The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I The Individual Pursuit of Excellence

1 Learning From Extraordinary Minds

Five Questions

Conceptualizing Extraordinariness

Adults

Young Persons

The Study of Extraordinariness

Principal Discoveries

Nature and Nurture

Choosing a Domain

From Master to Creator

The Leader’s Life

The Intelligences of Extraordinary Individuals

Relations to Other Persons

The Rationale for Such Studies

Broader Lessons

Acknowledgments

References

2 Attaining Excellence Through Deliberate Practice: Insights From the Study of Expert Performance

The Scientific Study of Expert Performance

The Necessity of Domain-Specific Experience

Going Beyond Mere Experience: Activities That Mediate Improvements of Performance

Change Through Deliberate Practice: Searching for the Causal Biological and Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Deliberate Modification of Bodily Systems and Individual Cells

Everyday Skills and Expert Performance: The Acquisition of Integrated Appropriate Actions

Expert Performers’ Learning: Generalizable Aspects and Specific Implementations

Concluding Remarks on the Gradual Attainment of Excellence Through Deliberate Practice

Acknowledgments

References

3 Fostering Intellectual Excellence Through Developing Expertise

What is Excellence as Expertise?

Expertise as Knowledge

Adaptive Expertise

Three Critical Aspects of Expert Performance

Expertise as a Label

Theories of Expertise

Map Models of Expertise

Theories Focusing on Mental Processing

The Acquisition of Expertise

The Deliberate Practice Plus Talent View

A Demonstration Study Jointly Assessing Ability and Deliberate Practice

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

4 Achieving Academic Excellence: A Self-Regulatory Perspective

Self-Regulation and Expert Performance

A Cyclical Theory of Academic Self-Regulation

Self-Regulation and Academic Excellence

Academic Self-Regulation and Perceived Efficacy

Acquisition of Self-Regulatory Expertise

Emergence of Self-Regulation Through Levels

Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

Part II Culture, Society, and the Pursuit of Excellence

5 Pathways to Excellence: Value Presuppositions and the Development of Academic and Affective Skills in Educational Contexts

The Concept of Development in Developmental Theory

Dynamic Skill Theory as a Framework for Predicting and Promoting Developmental Trajectories Toward Valued Endpoints

Pathways in the Dynamic Development of Psychological Structures

Promoting Idealized Development: The Epigenesis of Dynamic Structures

Alternative Trajectories Toward Common Endpoints: the Development of Academic Skills

Structures and Processes in the Development of Early Number Sense

Alternative Pathways in the Development of Reading Skills in Young Children

Continuing the Trajectories: Pathways to Excellence Among Adults With Reading Disabilities

Divergent Pathways in Affective Development: a Passion for Learning Among the Chinese

Diverse Endpoints of Learning Motivation

Divergent Pathways in the Development of Learning Motivation

Change Mechanisms in the Development of Hao-Xue-Xin

Promoting Excellence: Developmental Theory, Social Values, and Education

References

6 Creating Standards of Excellence for Residency Training in Neurological Surgery: A Historical Approach

Two Perspectives of Excellence: Setting Standards by the Bedside

From Moral Code to State Regulation: Taming the Doctors

Creating Something out of Nothing: The Legacy of Harvey Cushing

Innovation in Neurosurgery: Walter Dandy Challenges the Status QUO

Excellence in a Social and Professional Context

Conclusion: An Ongoing Ethical Debate

Acknowledgment

References

7 Achieving Excellence in Institutions

The Technical Dimensions of Expertise

Institution Building: the Entrepreneur

The Graduate School of Industrial Administration

Implications for Entrepreneurial Skill

Loyalty: Organizational Identification

Organizational Culture

Adapting to a Complex Environment

The Learning Research and Development Center

The Moral Dimension

The Civic Culture

Conclusion

References

8 Personal and Institutional Pursuit of Excellence

Cultural Norms for Excellence

Narratives

Categories

Aesthetic Experience

Individual Pursuit of Excellence

Self and Autobiographical Excellence

Institutional Pursuit of Excellence

The Schools

The Law

The Church

Dialectic between Individual and Institutional Pursuit of Excellence

Excellence as Social Progress

Excellence Based on Practical Power

Negotiating/Navigating Noetic Space

Reconciling Progress and Power

Reconciling Competing Traditions and Criteria for Excellence

Importance of Rhetoric

References

9 Conclusion: What is Excellence and How to Study it?

Methods of Empirically Studying Excellence

How is Individual Excellence Acquired?

Excellence Involves an Interaction Between Individual, Domain, and Field

Communities Provide Norms for Excellence

Excellence as Involving Personal Commitment to Particular Communal Values

Individuals Endorse Communal Norms in Interpreting Personal Excellence

Strength in Numbers: Organizations and Fields as Enhancing the Potential for Social Excellence

Importance of Individuals for Organizational Self-Definition

Cultures are Not Monolithic, Nor are the Normative Expectations they Generate

Lessons Learned from Considering Excellence Through Education

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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