A. At the site for Heting Chu, I added the tag, precision, because I had been reading about it in her book, and like the word, in general, besides the meaning it has for databases.
B. When I searched librarything, I found this:
The myth of laziness
by Mel Levine
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http://www.librarything.com/work/157677
Brain research is my area of interest. I clicked on a couple of titles and rejected them, because based on reading the tags, they didn’t seem related to education. I choose the resource, The Myth of Laziness, by Mel Levine, because the largest tag was education, and the title really appealed to me as an educator. We often use the laziness of students to explain their failure. If this is indeed a myth, educators need to know it and to compensate for it.
From reading the Amazon review, I learned that Mel Levine is a professor of pediatrics at University of North Carolina’s medical school. The book describes 7 case studies of children and adults and claims that laziness is the result of different neuro-development weaknesses. The internal and external factors related to this are explained and the end chapters offer recommendations for how to identify and remedy this condition. The most interesting mention in the review was a person who could not be helped to overcome his problems due to the external factor of “privileged upbringing.” I want to know how that can happen.
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