Hothousing
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Hothousing is a form of
Development
It was Irving Sigel who first introduced the term "hothousing" in 1987 after the greenhouse farming method. It was an analogy with the way vegetables are forced to ripen in this condition.[1] Sigel, who worked for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, used it to refer to a child who is drilled in academic fields such as reading and math long before other children begin learning them in school.[2] The child is likened to a "hurried student" induced to acquire knowledge with emphasis on how it fits into a broader scheme of knowledge instead of acquiring bits of information.[3] Some scholars have criticized hothousing, labeling it as early maturity of learning.[4]
Famous people who underwent hothousing
- Charles S. Peirce
- Gordon Brown[5]
- John Stuart Mill
- Aubrey de Grey[6]
- Val McDermid[5]
- Ruth Lawrence[7]
References
- ^ ISBN 0748759751.
- ISBN 9781101127438.
- ISBN 9780195138849.
- ISBN 9781447490036.
- ^ a b Ben Macintyre (19 May 2007). "'Cruel' experiment that left its mark on a very precocious boy". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Tom Templeton (16 September 2007). "Holding back the years". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ of Israel staff, Times (July 30, 2016). "UK math prodigy who graduated Oxford at 13 is now Orthodox mom of 4 in J'lem". The Times of Israel. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
External links
- Hothousing Young Children: Implications for Early Childhood Policy and Practice by Tynette W. Hills, published by ERICEducational Reports - article urging parents to be cautious about hothousing
- Child prodigies 'damaged for life by hothousing' - article by Judith Judd from Independent (London)
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