Pedagogy has developed for average and subnormal children but still lacks a pedagogy of supernormal children¶

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q1 i? Until recently pedagogy was directed almost exclusively at the average child, and although a pedagogy of subnormal children has existed for decades, no systematic pedagogy of supernormal children yet exists. → William Stern 1910

Evidence¶

William Stern 1910¶

William Stern. (1910). The Supernormal Child. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://archive.org/search?query=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument in the opening section of the paper. Stern asserts that pedagogy historically targeted the average child, that subnormal-child pedagogy arose a few decades earlier, and that "What we still lack, however, is a pedagogy of supernormal children." The article offers no data for this historical claim.

"For centuries we have had a pedagogy of normal children; indeed, until quite recently, pedagogy as a whole was well-nigh exclusively directed, both in theory and in practice, upon the average child."

Discussion¶

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