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21 - Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2010

By
Sami Gülgöz
Edited by
Sevda Bekman  and
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Foreword by
M. Brewster Smith
Sevda Bekman
Affiliation:
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Affiliation:
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
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Summary

In the spring semester of 1982, I took my first class with Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı. She was a master communicator, meticulous and hard working, admired by even youngsters like us who were spring-struck in the beautiful surroundings of Boğaziçi University. Despite the fragrant spring, we never missed a class and my girlfriend also chose to take the class, partly because of Dr. Kağıtçıbaşı's reputation and partly because we wanted to spend less time apart. Because she was on a sabbatical the following year, I did not have the chance to work for Dr. Kağıtçıbaşı and I have resented that many times. Now, for the past twelve years, I have had the blessing to work as a colleague in the same department and on several projects together with Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı. Moreover, my girlfriend is my wife now and our daughter is a student taking Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's class while working for her in a book project as well. We consider ourselves very lucky that she has been a part of our lives. Throughout this time, she supported and guided me in personal and career-related matters with compassion and elegance and she led me to the most exciting and meaningful projects like the Cognitive Improvement Program. It has been a privilege and I look forward to enjoying this for many more years.

As a consequence of a diverse set of reasons ranging from limited schooling opportunities to inadequacy of home environments and from lack of preschool education to low quality education, intervention programs around the world aim to improve cognitive skills of individuals in order to attain empowered populations and human capacity development.

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Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture , pp. 350 - 366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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