$36.00
- Paperback
244 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2025
Summary
In Invisible Intelligence, educationalist, filmmaker, and best-selling author Welby Ings considers how schools measure intelligence and shows how narrow definitions of literacy and numeracy can lead to bright students being described as ‘behind’ and positioned as problems, when they are not.
Ings mixes poignant, humorous, and insightful storytelling with current research to explore the ways that some children’s intelligent approaches to problem-solving are dismissed or ignore…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991348012 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1991348010 |
| Author: | Welby Ings |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Imprint: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 244 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 230mm x 156mm |
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This book was so great I shut myself in my office and sobbed … Invisible Intelligence is timely, original and a very fresh breath of air.’ – Professor Vivienne Anderson.
About The Author
Welby Ings
Welby Ings is a best-selling writer and celebrated New Zealand filmmaker. A professor in narrative design at Auckland University of Technology, he is the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence and the NZ Government Award for Sustained Tertiary Teaching Excellence. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural AUT medal for his contribution to learning and research. Invisible Intelligence is Ings’ second book in a planned trilogy on creative thinking and educational reform. It follows Disobedient Teaching (Otago University Press, 2017).
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