Using the Medical Model in Education: Can Pills Make You Clever?

by David A . Turner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $228.07

  Medicine, and particularly neuroscience, appears to offer the kind of educational quick fixes that politicians and the public would love to have. Following media reports of drugs that seemingly improve learning and memory, this title examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses such claims.