The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education

ISBN-13: 9780415461368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 376 str.

Tom Balchin;Barry Hymer;Dona Matthews

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The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education is a ground-breaking collection of fully-referenced chapters written by many of the most highly-respected authorities on the subject from around the world. These 50 contributors include distinguished scholars who have produced many of the most significant advances to the field over the past few decades, like Joseph Renzulli and Robert Sternberg, alongside authorities who ask questions about the very concepts and terminology embodied in the field – scholars such as Carol Dweck and Guy Claxton.

This multi-faceted volume:

• highlights strategies to support giftedness in children, providing ideas that work and weeding out those that don’t
• is written in jargon-free language in an easy-to use themed format
• is the most authoritative collection of future-focused views, ideas and reflections, practices and evaluations yet produced.
• includes chapters dealing with the major controversies and concerns in the field today, from the problems of identification to changing understandings of giftedness and creativity.

The international aspect of the Companion, and its juxtaposition of points of view – whereby chapters are deliberately positioned and accompanied by editorial commentary to highlight the contrasts with each other,– ensures that different views are addressed, allowing the reader to absorb and reflect upon the many perspectives on each issue.

The Companion is a guide to the new ideas and controversies that are informing gifted education discussion and policy-making around the world. It is a first class resource to students and researchers alike.

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Part 1: Models, Definitions & Conceptual Challenges  1. Brightening Up: How Children Learn To Be Gifted  Guy Claxton and Sara Meadows  2. Neural Interconnectivity And Intellectual Creativity: Giftedness, Savants, And Learning Styles John Geake  3. Making Connections: Cognition, Emotion, And A Shifting Paradigm Dona J. Matthews and Christy Folsom  4. Giftedness: The Gift That Keeps On Giving Dean Simonton  5. Talent Development: DMGT  Françoys Gagné  6. The Nature Of Creative Giftedness And Talent  Todd Lubart, Asta Georgsdottir and Maud Besançon  7. The Future Of The English Definition Of Giftedness  Thomas Balchin  Part 2: International Perspectives  8. Gifted Education From The German Perspective  Kurt Heller  9. Education Practices For Gifted Learners In France: An Overview Pierre Vrignaud, Denis Bonora, and Annie Dreux  10. High Ability Education In Sweden: The Swedish Model  Åke Edfeldt and Inger Wistedt  11. A Proposal For Gifted Education In Reluctant Schools: The Case Of The Greek School System  Elias Matsagouras and Evangelia Dougali  12. We Can Still Do This, Or Can We? The Russian System Of Educating And Promoting Talent In Mathematics And Science  Ida Jeltova, Konstantin Lukin and Elena L. Grigorenko  13. Russian Strategies For Talent Development: Stimulating Comfort And Discomfort  Victoria S. Yurkevich and Boris M. Davidovich  14. Gifted But Underachieving: Australian Indigenous Children  Graham M. Chaffey  15. Lay Conceptions Of Giftedness Among The Chinese People  David W. Chan  Part 3: Psychosocial Development  16. The Ethics Of Gifted Education - What Can We Learn From Medical Ethics?  Annie Haight  17. Ethical Sensitivity And Giftedness Kirsi Tirri  18. Morality And Giftedness  Joan Freeman  19. Emotional Intelligence: Re-Examining Some Preconceptions  Maria Dolores Prieto and Mercedes Ferrando  20. Too Long Neglected: Giftedness In Younger Children  Valsa Koshy  21. Teaching The Able Child … Or Teaching The Child To Be Able?   Jan Hughes  22. Global Success And Giftedness  Carmen Cretu  23. A Reconsideration Of The Widely Held Conviction That Gifted Students Prefer To Work Alone  Lisa R. French and Bruce M. Shore  Part 4: Theory into Practice: Differentiation Strategies, Tools, and Approaches  24. A Computerized Strength Assessment And Internet-Based Enrichment Program For Developing Giftedness And Talents  Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis  25. Acceleration: Meeting The Academic And Social Needs Of Students  Nicholas Colangelo and Susan Assouline  26. Recognising And Fostering Creative Production Thomas Balchin  27. Programming For Talent Development: Expanding Horizons For Gifted Education  Donald Treffinger, Carole A. Nassab and Edwin C. Selby  28. Special Educational Needs And Dual Exceptionality  Diane Montgomery  29. Visual Thinking: A Gifted Boy With Asperger Syndrome  Wieslawa Limont  30. Challenge And Creativity: Making The Links  Helen Wilson  31. Educating For Enquiry: Personalising Learning Through Dialogic Teaching  Robert Fisher  Part 5: Expanding Horizons: Supporting Gifted Development More Broadly  32. Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, Synthesised: A Model Of Giftedness  Robert Sternberg  33. Fostering Giftedness In Urban And Diverse Communities: Context-Sensitive Solutions  Ian Warwick and Dona Matthews  34. The Role Of Gifted Education In Promoting Cultural Diversity  Joyce VanTassel-Baska  35. Developing Pupils' Problem-Solving And Thinking Skills  Belle Wallace  36. Creating Inclusive And Inclusional Understandings Of Gifts And Talents Through Living Educational Theory Research  Marie Huxtable  37. Beyond Compare? Thoughts Towards An Inclusional, Fluid, And Non-Normative Understanding Of Giftedness  Barry J. Hymer  38. Self-Theories And Lessons For Giftedness: A Reflective Conversation  Carol S. Dweck  39. Turning Points And Future Directions In Gifted Education And Talent Development  Sally M. Reis