TY - BOOK AU - Jackson,Yvette TI - The pedagogy of confidence: inspiring high intellectual performance in urban schools SN - 9780807752234 (pbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Teachers College Press KW - Children with social disabilities KW - Education KW - United States KW - City children KW - Achievement motivation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-182) and index; The need to believe -- The continued drama of disregarded realities -- Other disregarded realities: obscured learning barriers -- Divining intelligence: the transformative theory and practice of Reuven Feuerstein -- Back to gifted land: extraordinary learning growth requires extraordinary teacher -- The high operational practices of the pedagogy of confidence -- The art of applying the high operational practices -- Namaste: the essence of the pedagogy of confidence -- Inspiring the pedagogy of confidence -- Mediative structures -- Waiting to excel: from belief, practices, and structures to the pedagogy of confidence ER -