David Stenhouse (born 23 May 1932, in

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, England. He proposed the "4-factor" theory of evolutionary intelligence and was active in

ethology Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a term also describes the scientific and objectiv ...

, education,

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...

and

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in Australia and

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. He died after a short illness on 27 August 2013 in

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, New Zealand.

Early life and family

Stenhouse spent his childhood on the outskirts of London and in South-West Scotland, where his parents were from. His paternal grandfather, also called David, was the headmaster of the Sandbank school. The son of J.F.M. & M.M. Stenhouse, he has one sister, Joyce. His parents moved to New Zealand when he was in his teens. He has 7 children from 2 marriages. His eldest son, Dr. John Stenhouse, was a lecturer in History at Massey University, and is currently Associate Professor in History at the

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Work

After taking degrees in both Philosophy (under

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) and Zoology at the

, he lectured at universities in New Zealand and Australia – in the Department of Zoology at

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, the Department of Education at

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, and the Department of Psychology at

. He is the author of a number of books and articles.

Selected publications

Books

Crisis in Abundance
published in 1966 (Heinemann).
Unstated assumptions in education : a cross-cultural investigation
published in 1972 ().
The Evolution of Intelligence : A general theory and some of its implications
published in 1974 (

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, and ) (Japanese edition
"Chino no shinka : chiteki kodo no ippan riron"Italian edition
.
Active Philosophy in Education and Science: Paradigms and Language-Games
published in 1985 (Cambridge, MA:

. and ).

Articles

* * * * * * * * * * * *D Stenhouse, MJR Gaffikin (1976),
Behavioural accounting and the changing nature of the human behavioural/social sciences : some implications of the ethological revolution"
Occasional Paper, Massey University, New Zealand. * *Stenhouse, David (1979)
"The Wittgensteinian Revolution and Linguistic Philosophy: Some Implications for Education and Educational Philosophy"
PhD Thesis, Massey University, New Zealand. *

References

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