| Description |
x, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Conceptions of giftedness: a map of the terrain / Robert J. Sternberg and Janet E. Davidson -- Implicit-theoretical approaches -- Giftedness: a psychosocial approach / Abraham J. Tannenbaum -- The three-ring conception of giftedness; a developmental model for creative productivity / Joseph S. Renzulli -- The educational definition of giftedness and its policy implications / James J. Gallagher and Richard D. Courtright -- A conception of giftedness / John F. Feldhusen -- Giftedness: coalescence, context, conflict, and commitment / Patricia Haensly, Cecil R. Reynolds, and William R. Nash -- Explicit-theoretical approaches: cognitive theory -- A conception of giftedness designed to promote research / Nancy Ewald Jackson and Earl C. Butterfield -- Causes and consequences of metamemory in gifted children / John G. Borkowski and Virginia A. Peck -- The role of insight in giftedness / Janet E. Davidson -- A triarchic theory of intellectual giftedness / Robert J. Sternberg -- Explicit-theoretical approaches: developmental theory -- The self-construction of the extraordinary / Howard E. Gruber -- Culture, time, and the development of talent / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rick E. Robinson -- Giftedness as a developmentalist sees it / David Henry Feldman and Ann C. Benjamin -- The crystallizing experience: discovering an intellectual gift / Joseph Walters and Howard Gardner -- The achievement of eminence: a model based on a longitudinal study of exceptionally gifted boys and their families / Robert S. Albert and Mark A. Runco -- Explicit-theoretical approaches: domain-specific theory -- Youths who reason exceptionally well mathematically / Julian C. Stanley and Camilla Persson Benbow -- Cognitive issues in the development of musically gifted children / Jeanne Bamberger -- Two levels of giftedness: shall ever the twain meet? / Robert S. Siegler and Kenneth Kotovsky |
| Summary |
Talent is arguably the most precious natural resource a society can have. The purpose of this book is to present alternative conceptions of just what giftedness is how it can be measured, and how it can be developed in both children and adults. Conceptions of Giftedness consists of eighteen chapters by distinguished contributors to theory and research. It is divided into six parts. The first, an editorial introduction, offers a 'map of the terrain', and puts the chapters that follow in unified perspective. The second part addresses educationally -based conceptions of giftedness; the third, cognitive-psychological approaches; the fourth, developmental theories; the fifth, domain-specific aspects - mathematics and music. The final part, an integrative concluding chapter, discusses points of overlap and differences among the various positions. Conceptions of Giftedness brings together in one place, for the first time, comprehensive and readable statements of the main contemporary points of view by their leading exponents |
| Analysis |
Gifted persons - Psychological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Genius.
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Gifted children -- Psychology.
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Gifted children.
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Child, Gifted -- psychology.
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Creativity.
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| Author |
Davidson, Janet E.
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Sternberg, Robert J.
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| LC no. |
85015144 |
| ISBN |
0521268141 |
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0521318793 (paperback) |
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